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Web Site Search: Medical Photograph Library Saturday, October 11, 2008 Find more information or images about this topic from the Web or the world's best medical journals by using the search boxes at the top of this page.   Eyeball rupture (Globe rupture): A 22-year-old un-belted automobile driver who was involved in a head-on motor vehicle accident presented with confusion. The windshield of the vehicle was broken. There was marked facial trauma that included a depressed right eye as seen in the image . The eye would not move.. Globe (eyeball) contents appeared to be coming out from the upper part of the eye. The pupil (black part of the eye) had lost its normal shape and did not get smaller when subjected to light. The patient could only perceive hand motion. (L.S.)

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