In conclusion, chorioretinectomy in perforating eye injuries seems to prevent exit site wound-related PVR in most of the cases when performed as early as possible. Our study has several limitations.

This maneuver is best performed when the eye is pressurized after ... and to reposit it without incarceration. Perforating injuries often have posterior exit wounds that are difficult to expose.

something penetrates the eye but does not work through to the other side (there is no exit wound). If there is also an exit ...

Perforating injuries refer to a disruption of globe integrity in two places due to an entry and exit wound. Blunt injuries to the eye can result in a closed globe or open globe injury. The eye ...

Ocular trauma is the leading cause of monocular blindness worldwide 1 and intraocular foreign bodies (IOFBs) are a major contributor accounting for approximately 17–41% of cases. 2 We present an ...

According to the United States Eye Injury Registry maintained ... determining if it is a closed globe injury or a penetrating or perforating injury, describing the size and location of any ...

Assistant in Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School; One of the Surgeons to the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirrmary; One of the Ophthalmic Surgeons to the Out-Patient Department of the ...

Using products that contain lye, bleaches, and soaps —bases being worse than acids— can corrode through the eye and blind. The key in preventing injury is immediately ... The quick moments.

Our philosophy is that no eye has ever gone blind from aphakia ... Retinal incarceration at the time of initial injury is rare in perforating injuries when compared with blunt ruptures, because ...