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I read with interest the article by Andreotti et al¹ pertaining to the incidence and nature of ocular trauma in the US military in 1998. I would like to highlight a previously published study reporting the incidence of ocular trauma in the US Army during a 10-year period from 1985 through 1994.²

Cases of ocular trauma requiring hospitalization were identified from the Total Army and Health Outcomes Database, using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes, as in the study by Andreotti et al. During this 10-year period, we found an average annual incidence for a principal discharge diagnosis of ocular trauma of 50 cases per 100 000 people. Although this rate appears to be almost 3 times higher than the 1998 annual rate of ocular trauma requiring hospitalization reported by Andreotti et al (17 cases per 100 000 people), a detailed examination of the 2 studies offers several possible . . . [Full Text of this Article]