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KMID : 0378019900330050023
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New Medical Journal
1990 Volume.33 No. 5 p.23 ~ p.30
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A Statistical Observation of the Ocular Injuries
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Abstract
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Ocular injury is one of the commonest cause of visual disturbance. Its patterns and incidences are variable according to the environment and the prognosis of, the ocular injury is good withe early adequate management of trauma.
The author analysed statistically 288 cases of the ocular injuries who visited to the Chosun University Hospital during the period from March 1986 to February 1989. The results were as follows.
1. The incidence of ocular injuries was 5.2% of all patients.
2. The incidence was more common in males(75.3%) and males were nearly three times
as many as females.
3. In comparison with age groups, the largest group was in the age group of the second decade (28.1% ).
4. The incidence of right eye (56%) was more common than the left eye ( 42.7%) .
5. The ocular injuries were more common in autumn(39.9%) and in summer(28.5%).
6. The most common cause of ocular injuries was metal(30.2%), followed by traffic accident(19.8%) and glasses(11.5%).
7. The most common type of injuries in ocular tissue was contusion(39.2%),_ follow l by foreign body (27.4% ).
8. The most common ocular injury was corneal foreign body (12.5%), followed by lid contusion, foreign body(11.1%) and subdonjunctival hemorrhage(8.7%).
9. Surgical -procedures include comeaoscleral suture(40%), conjunctival suture(27.5%) and enucleastion (10% ).
10. At the first vist, the visual acuity showed less than F.C / 30cm in 19.4% and 0.1 in 14.9%. But the corrected vision after treatment was less than F.C / 30cm in 8.3% and 0.1 in 7.3%.
11. The most common complication of ocular injuries after treatment was corneal opacity (32.6%), followed by secondary uveities (12.1 %) .
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