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Bilateral total optic atrophy due to transdermal methanol intoxication
Yalçin Işcan1, Çiğdem Coşkun, Veysi Öner
1Department of Ophthalmology, Batman State Hospital, Batman, Turkey.
Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology
|April 13, 2013
Abstract:
In this case report, we document a 54-year-old woman with total bilateral optic nerve atrophy after local application of methanol containing spirit. Almost all the reported cases of methanol intoxication in the literature are caused by oral ingestion. In this rare case, we present transdermal absorption of methanol that may cause irreversible blindness in addition to intracerebral lesions.

