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Dr please tel me an object hit above ear [not cut but budge little] it may cause any damage to eye nurve[optic nurve ?
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Not typically: Unusual in the absence of major trauma. Blunt trauma just above the brow of the eye can cause damage to the optic nerve (traumatic optic neuropathy).
Answered 12/23/2012
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