Good practices in traumatic glaucoma

We review different aspects of trauma-induced glaucoma and hypertonia, disc ussing pathophysiology, patient management, and the main clinical presentat ions. One can distinguish schematically first acute hypertonia related to c hanges in the position of the crystalline lens or to a hypema which require s emergency medical or surgical care and secon, chronic situations generall y related to definitive angle lesions. We also discuss particular presentat ions such as phantom-cell glaucoma and glaucoma by chemical burn or sideros is.