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Abstract
Optic nerve injury following closed head injury is uncommon and reported in 1-5% cases.
Interestingly, incidences as high as 44% was reported by Crompton, among them 20%
had bilateral pathologies. Surprisingly only few large series has been published in
the World literature. Most of the published series are retrospective analysis of smaller
number of cases. We at AIIMS have prospectively analyzed a large number of patients
with optic nerve injury over the last 2 decades & rationalized the protocol, based
on our experience including indications for optic nerve decompression. Thus this publication
is based on the experience of 800 patients of optic nerve injury, treated between
1983-2002.
Keywords
Optic nerve injury - Head injury - Rationale of optic nerve decompression - outcome
