Courtesy of Dr. Joseph Santamaria and Dr. Bartlett Hayes.
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Comprehensive Ophthalmology, Cornea/External Disease
A blunt force injury with a metal bolt impacting the nasal sclera results in a temporal scleral laceration. Dramatic rise and fall in IOP creates rapid shearing forces acting on the relatively inelastic sclera leading to the coup-counter-coup phenomenon.