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KMID : 0381219920240020232
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Journal of RIMSK
1992 Volume.24 No. 2 p.232 ~ p.235
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Survey of Causes of Blindness among the Students of Seoul Blind School
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Abstract
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We visited Seoul Blind School recently and analysed statistically the causes of blindness among 242 students, 484 eyes.
Most frequent causes of blindness were unkown(30.6%), congenital(26.5%) and others (18.2%). Other causes were ass follows in descending order of frequency; trauma(7.4%), glaucoma(7.0%), infection(4.6%), tumor(2.9%), amblyopia order of frequency;
trauma(7.4%), glaucoma(7.0%), infection(4.6%), tumor(2.9%), amblyopia(1.2%), poisoning(0.8%), etc.
The causative diseases of blindness were phthisis bulbi(17.4%), optic atrophy(15.3%), retinal degeneration(13.8%), aphakia(11.8%), corneal opacity (8.5%), congenital glaucoma(8.3%) and congenital cataract(5.8%), etc.
comparisons with other statistics on causes of blindness in domestic reports are attempted. Evaluation of results and problems establishing a more detailed and nationwide survey in future are briefly discussed in comment.
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