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Etiology and Histology

BERNARD D. ZUCKERMAN, M.D.; THEODORE W. LIEBERMAN, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1960;63(2):254-265.

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Introduction

One of the problems commonly confronting the ophthalmologist as well as the general practitioner is that of the corneal foreign body. With the utilization of high speed drills and other mechanical devices in our modern era of industrialization, the frequency of eye injuries secondary to embedded particles remains high despite the increasing use of safety precautions.¹ Fragments buried in the corneal substance represent by far the commonest industrial ocular accidents, serious enough to reach a statistical reporting center. In a study by Callahan^2,3 of 404 eye injuries occurring in an aircraft plant, keratic foreign bodies accounted for 37% of the total number. Gronvoll and Ohlson⁴ demonstrated that the vast majority of these particles are centrally located in an area which represents approximately only one quarter of the total keratic surface. The importance of the prevention of permanent corneal damage becomes that much more significant because of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New Haven, Conn.; New York

From the Section of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 14, 1959.

Aided by the Connecticut Lions Eye Research Foundation (Dr. Zuckerman) and a Fight for Sight award of the National Council to Combat Blindness, Inc., New York (Dr. Lieberman).

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