Serious eye injuries due to war games.

Serious eye injuries due to war games.

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...

Incidence of Serious Injuries Due to Physical Abuse

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Although US child protective services data showed a 55% decrease in the national incidence of substantiated physical abuse from 1992 to 2009, no study has tracked the occurrence of serious injuries due to physical abuse. This study examined changes in the incidence of serious injuries due to physical abuse in hospitalized children from 1997 to 2009. METHODS: The Kids’ ...

Red Eye due to Leech in the Eye

A 65–yrs-old man referred for an ocular discomfort and red eye. The clinical diagnosis was leech in the left eye and its species confirmed as being Limnatis nilotica. Ocular leech infestation should be considered in patients with a history of swimming or washing their face in streams and lakes. Attention should also be given to ocular leech infestation in the differential diagnosis of ocular tr...

Serious eye injuries caused by the civil disturbances in Belfast.

INTRODUCrION Trauma is the commonest cause of eye disease. In the five years up to August 1969, 376 perforating eye injuries were treated in the Eye & Ear Clinic, Royal Victoria Hospital, the main causes being accidents and play in children, and road traffic accidents in adults. Only twenty-one were due to assault, usually with the list or broken glass, one was due to a butt with the head and o...