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Dahlia R. Hirsch, MD; Donna Grey Booth, MD; Stanley Schocket, MD; David H. Sliney, MS
Fallston, Md

Arch Ophthalmol. 1992;110(12):1688-1689.

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The increased use of lasers in industry, science, and medicine has led to a growing case report file dealing with accidental exposure of the eye to laser radiation.^1-3 Laser-induced injury of the foveal region is of greatest concern since visual prognosis is expected to be very poor.

Report of a Case.

—A 29-year-old male research scientist sustained a foveal hemorrhage from exposure to one or two 0.55-MJ, 620-nm, 20-nanosecond laser pulses from orange laser light emitted by a neodymiumYAG pumped-dye laser. He was at arm's length from a beam-positioning mirror and looked directly at the mirror when the beam position was not apparent. He experienced a brilliant orange flash of light in his right eye and then saw only black. Visual acuity was counting fingers at 180 cm in the right eye, with an 8° central scotoma. A preretinal foveal hemorrhage with surrounding radiating folds was noted (Fig 1), . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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