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DANIEL T. WEIDENTHAL, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1964;71(1):77-81.

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Though the eye is afforded a great deal of protection by the bony orbit, contusion injuries of the globe are common. Fists, baseballs, and other low-speed missiles account for most of these nonpenetrating injuries. It has been estimated that missile velocity must exceed 300 feet per second to effect perforation of the human cornea.¹ Contusion is produced at slower speeds. There is a vivid description of ocular contusion in Doggart's paper on the adverse effects of boxing.² Wolff and Zimmerman have recently rekindled interest in the subject by correlating a characteristic deformity of the anterior chamber angle in contused human eyes with the development of a unilateral secondary glaucoma.³ The deformity consists of a longitudinal tear into the face of the ciliary body (Fig 1). Evidently the trabecular meshwork is also damaged, which accounts for the gradual rise in intraocular pressure.

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Author Affiliations
Boston

From the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington 25, DC.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 25, 1963.

This study was carried out during a Fellowship in Ophthalmic Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC. Present address: 243 Charles St, Boston 14.

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