This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on ISI (4)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal

Arch Ophthalmol. 1998;116:530-531.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

A perforating corneal injury associated with the presence of cilia in the anterior chamber is uncommon^1-2; rarer still is fingernail trauma as the cause of the corneal perforation.³ Herein we describe this extraordinary occurrence of corneal perforation that resulted from a sports injury.

Report of a Case

A 30-year-old man experienced pain and decreased vision in the left eye after sustaining a fingernail injury one day earlier from a fellow player while playing the game of Kabadi. Kabadi, a popular sport on the Indian subcontinent, is a contest between 2 teams of 5 to 10 persons per team in which each side seeks physically to capture members of the opposing team and pull them over a line separating the 2 teams. The game involves extensive running and wrestling, and somewhat resembles the North American game of capture-the-flag.

Findings from the slitlamp examination revealed a 3-mm sealed corneal laceration at the 8-o'clock . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Comment
Corresponding author: Ritu Arora, MD, D-1, Nizamuddin West, New Delhi-110 013 India.