コンタクトレンズを着用している患者に見られた興味ある黄斑部損傷の1例

Selective Traumatic Retinal Damage while Wearing a Contactlens

I．まえがき

　最近，私はコンタクトレンズを着用している患者に見られた興味ある黄斑部損傷の1例を経験し，種々文献を検討したが，同じような症例が見当らぬので報告する。

A female office clerk, who had been wearing contactlenses for the past 6 years, incurred blunt blow upon the left eyeball when directly hit by a falling cardboard box. While the an-terior portion of the eye was virtually free from pathological findings, macular hemorrhage re-sulted with the visual acuity reduced to hand movement. The fundus finding as well as visual acuity was normalized 4 weeks later. The contactlens seems to have protected the ante-rior eye segment from serious consequences due to trauma.