purpose: to determine the nature and types of household eye injuries. methods: we prospectively analyzed data from 100 consecutive patients with household eye injuries (104 eyes) referred to emergency room of farabi eye hospital during october 2003. standardized international classification of ocular trauma (birmingham eye trauma terminology) was used for classification. results: household ocul...

BACKGROUND Most patients with open globe eye injury are brought to hospital as emergency patients and usually require admission for emergency surgery. We analyzed the visual outcome in patients with open globe eye injury at our hospital over a 4-year period. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study reviewed 40 eyes of 40 patients with open globe eye injury who were presented to Juntendo University Shi...

Current states of traumatic eye injury are reviewed in terms of epidemiology in the developing countries and developed countries, causes of the trauma, eye injury types, traumatic eye injury diagnostic methods and treatments. Trauma-caused vision-threatening conditions such as open global injury, traumatic optic neuropathy and proliferative vitreoretinopathy are particularly discussed. Also the...

BACKGROUND Consistent with the public health approach to prevention, surveillance analyses are needed to fully understand a health problem. U.S. military eye injury rates have not been fully described using medical surveillance data. METHODS Medical visit data on active duty personnel, 1996-2005, and causes of eye injury hospitalizations (identified by Standard NATO Agreement injury cause cod...