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Self-inflicted penetrating eye injuries using a razor blade: Case report [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Ophthalmology, 2009
Background A 23 year old white male with a history of social and behavioural problems attempted to blind himself chemically, with alcohol, and mechanically, with a razor blade.
Price Nicholas, Razavi Hessom
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Emergency management: penetrating eye injuries and intraocular foreign bodies [PDF]

open access: yesCommunity Eye Health Journal, 2018
Penetrating injuries require immediate first aid and urgent referral to a specialist, particularly if there is a foreign body in the eye.
Nyawira Mwangi, Dorothy M Mutie
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The pathogenetic mechanism of choked optic disc in penetrating eye injuries causing sharply reduced intraocular pressure

open access: yesРоссийский офтальмологический журнал, 2018
The paper presents the author's observations and the analysis of choked optic disc in patients with penetrating eye injuries and IOP drastically reduced to 6-9 mmHg. The normal tissue pressured of the disk is known to be 10 mmHg.
V. I. Morozov
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Primary level management of eye injuries

open access: yesCommunity Eye Health Journal, 2005
Eye injuries are common and a leading cause of preventable unilateral blindness worldwide. The causes vary, but drawing upon experience from The Gambia and Senegal, trauma is more common during the farming season and among small-scale metal workers ...
Bakary Ceesay, Ansumana Sillah
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Explosive eye injuries: characteristics, traumatic mechanisms, and prognostic factors for poor visual outcomes

open access: yesMilitary Medical Research, 2023
Background Explosions can produce blast waves, high-speed medium, thermal radiation, and chemical spatter, leading to complex and compound eye injuries. However, few studies have comprehensively investigated the clinical features of different eye injury ...
Ying Zhang   +5 more
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Surgery of eye injuries in an eight-year period [PDF]

open access: yesVojnosanitetski Pregled, 2005
Background. Eye injuries constitute a leading problem in eye surgery worldwide, as well as at our department. Their treatment is very complex, and requires a wide surgical knowledge and surgical skills supported by the material and the equipment. Aim. To
Vukosavljević Miroslav
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Characterization of evisceration and enucleation following ocular trauma in Medellín, Colombia

open access: yesThe Pan-American Journal of Ophthalmology, 2023
Introduction: Ocular trauma is a significant cause of visual loss with long-term sequelae, including reduced quality of life and loss of productivity for young patients.
Natalia Rodríguez Giraldo   +5 more
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An Unusual Transorbital Penetrating Injury by House-key (lock): A Case Report with a Small Review of Literature [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Penetrating injuries of the brain are quite uncommon, comprising approximately 0.4% of all head injuries. In our case, a four-year-old boy who fell forward on a house-key (lock) accidentally while playing with some other children sustained a left sided ...
Santanu Sarkar   +3 more
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Penetrating Orbital Injury; a Case Report and Treatment Algorithm

open access: yesArchives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2020
Penetrating orbital trauma (POT) consists of high and low velocity penetrating injuries that may lead to severe consequences such as visual impairment and globe tearing. It has been reported to make up 30% to 50% of all orbital injuries.
Mehrdad Dehghanpour Barouj   +4 more
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