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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF EYE INJURIES IN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
FRACO PHYLLIS M. WADDY
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
australian journal of opthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 0310-1177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.1984.tb01163.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sympathetic ophthalmia , endophthalmitis , eye injuries , age groups , injury prevention , pediatrics , poison control , surgery , ophthalmology , emergency medicine , demography , uveitis , sociology
A retrospective analysis was carried out of 563 records of children up to 13 years of age (413 [73.4%] boys, 150 [26.6%] girls) who were admitted to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children and Sydney Eye Hospital between July 1969 and June 1979 with trauma to the globe. Associated injuries to lids and adnexae were not included. The right eye was injured twice as often as the left. Girls exhibited a tower rate of injury and less severe trauma with no age peak, whereas boys in the 12‐year group were markedly at risk. Implicated were 81 agents classified into 14 groups, with kitchen items accounting for 54% of trauma. Two hundred and seventy‐seven (49.2%) were contusion injuries, 259 (46%) were perforating injuries. Because of the difference in causative agents, penetrating injuries tended to occur in younger children and contusion injuries in the older age group. In this series 40 (7%) eyes were enucleated. There were no cases of endophthalmitis or sympathetic ophthalmia.