Imaging Modalities in Ocular Trauma

O trauma is a major cause of blindness worldwide and oculo-orbital trauma is one of the pathologies that require urgent radiological studies. Traumatic pathology of the orbit is often seen in the polytraumatized patients and can result in a wide spectrum of tissue lesions of the globe, optic nerve and adnexa, ranging from the relatively superficial to vision threatening. Depending on the imaging findings and the radiological assessment, the patient may be assumed to require surgical treatment as in cases of intraorbital or intraocular foreign bodies, eye compression by hematomas or fractures with muscle entrapment etc.