It is generally presumed that penetrating injuries of the orbit are associated with direct optic nerve injury. The incidence of TON after craniofacial trauma has been reported to be 0.5-1.5 % in older series. However, recent surveys report a higher figure; 2-5 % . This increased incidence may represent the diagnosis of subtle forms of TON closer to the time of injury. These types of cases appea...

Serious injury to the optic nerve, including direct and indirect events, induces significant visual loss and even blindness. For the past decade corticosteroids and/or optic canal decompression surgery have been widely embraced therapeutic paradigms for the treatment of traumatic optic neuropathy. There is little clinical evidence, however, to support the effectiveness of these strategies, rais...

TON or traumatic optic neuropathy is a condition that can cause blindness which be caused by trauma to the orbital area head trauma. In its classification, divided into two, namely direct and indirect. Direct TON, usually decrease loss of person's visual ability chance recovery smaller than indirect TON. This occurs when nerve laced with surrounding bone anatomical structural abnormalities. tre...

PURPOSE Traumatic optic neuropathy (TON) is a serious complication of head trauma with the incidence rate of 0.5%-5%. The aim of this study was to investigate the therapeutic efficacy of endoscopic decompression of the optic canal for optic nerve injuries. METHODS In this study, 11 patients treated in our hospital from January 2009 to January 2015 with the visual loss resulting from TON were ...

Current states of traumatic eye injury are reviewed in terms of epidemiology in the developing countries and developed countries, causes of the trauma, eye injury types, traumatic eye injury diagnostic methods and treatments. Trauma-caused vision-threatening conditions such as open global injury, traumatic optic neuropathy and proliferative vitreoretinopathy are particularly discussed. Also the...