ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 July 1978
Page Count: 3

Bilateral Linear Subconjunctival Hemorrhage in a Trauma Patient
Rothouse, LS
Major, Medical Corps, and chief of clinical pathology, Department of Pathology; lieutenant colonel, Medical Corps, and chief, Department of Pathology, Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Ga.

Sayers, RJ
Major, Medical Corps, and chief of clinical pathology, Department of Pathology; lieutenant colonel, Medical Corps, and chief, Department of Pathology, Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Ga.

(Received 19 October 1977; accepted 15 November 1977)

Abstract

Subconjunctival hemorrhage may be associated with many forms of trauma including Valsalva's maneuvers induced by heavy lifting, straining at stool, vomiting, and coughing. It may also occur from innocuous minor trauma associated with merely rubbing the eye, or it may be associated with sudden venous congestion of the head. The accumulation of blood beneath the conjunctiva may also occur secondary to blunt trauma or blast injury [1–3]. This case report represents an incident of an extremely unusual manifestation of subconjunctival hemorrhage associated with a gunshot wound to the chest.

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Paper ID: JFS10700J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10700J
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