Clinical Study

The Outcome of Endoscopic Transethmosphenoid Optic Canal Decompression for Indirect Traumatic Optic Neuropathy with No-Light-Perception

Table 1

Clinical characteristic of 96 NLP patients with ITON.

CharacteristicCase (n) (%)

Injury type
 Fall48 (50.0)
 Car accident36 (37.5)
 Assault11 (11.5)
 Explosion1 (1.0)
State of consciousness
 Impairment48 (50.0)
 None48 (50.0)
Orbital bone fracture
 Yes33 (34.4)
 No63 (65.6)
Hemorrhage within the postethmoid and/or sphenoid sinus
 Yes39 (40.6)
 No57 (59.4)
Optic canal fracture
 On image scan37 (38.5)
 Found during surgery58 (60.4)
 None38 (39.6)
Time to medical treatment
 Within 3 days33 (34.4)
 3–7 days21 (21.9)
 After 7 days42 (43.8)
Optic nerve
 Atrophic optic nerve20 (20.8)
 Nonatrophic optic nerve76 (79.2)