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A Potential Ocular Hazard

MAJ ROBERT PENNER, MC

Arch Ophthalmol. 1966;75(1):68-71.

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Golf ball injury to the eye and orbit is not limited to those who play golf. Previously reported ocular injuries secondary to explosive eruption of liquid center golf balls have demonstrated this. Duke-Elder suggested that utilization of less caustic materials in the manufacturing processes had removed this hazard. However, the two following cases demonstrate that penetration into the core of some golf balls remains inherently dangerous, and that the ocular hazards of youth still include the dissection of liquid center golf balls.

Case Reports

CASE 1 (No. 6791035).

—An 11-year-old white boy was cutting into a discarded golf ball when the contents of its center exploded into his face. The residual golf ball was discarded by the parent and not available for chemical analysis.

Initial medical treatment was begun at US Army Tripler General Hospital within an hour of the accident. The skin of the right lower lid was thickened . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Washington, DC

From the Ophthalmology Service, Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, DC.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 12, 1965.

Reprint requests to Assistant Chief, Ophthalmology Service, Walter Reed Army General Hospital, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20012.

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