Injuries of the Eye

War Injuries of the Eye

In these days of war, both from the battle areas and from accidents in war industries, injuries to the eye are common. Many of these injuries are perforating in nature ; a foreign body has entered some part of the globe and may be lodged inside or outside the eyeball. In war injuries, the foreign bodies include splinters from glass, bombs, shells, handgrenades and booby-traps, whereas in indust...

Arrow injuries to the eye.

Two male siblings aged 10 and 17 years, respectively, presented to our hospital with two days history of being shot in the right eyes with arrows. The patients presented with severe pains, bleeding, swelling, discharge and loss of vision. There was positive history of application of traditional eye medicine and an unsuccessful attempt was made to remove the arrows. Both patients presented with ...

Self-inflicted eye injuries.

Five cases of self-inflicted eye injury are described and discussed. A review of the literature shows that several psychiatric diagnoses have been assigned to people who damage their eyes. A variety of mechanisms to explain this phenomenon are described.

Diseases and Injuries of the Eye

Eye injuries in children.

We report a retrospective study of children's eye injuries treated during 1977 at Helsinki University Eye Hospital. There were 110 cases representing 34.5% of all eye injuries and 3% of all patients treated in 1977; 81.8% were boys and 18.2% girls. Half of the injuries were caused by another child, one-third were self-inflicted, and the rest were other accidents. The risk of eye injury in girls...