Ruptured globe 20 years after radial and transverse keratotomy.

To report a case of corneal rupture due to blunt trauma occurring 20 years after radial keratotomy (RK) and transverse keratotomy. A 57-year-old woman sustained direct blunt trauma to her right eye. Ocular examination revealed a ruptured globe involving two of the eight RK incisions connected together across the visual axis with iris incarceration in the wound.