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Current Concepts and Management of Severely Traumatized Tissues in the Inner Coatings (the Posterior Segment: the Ciliary Body, the Choroid, and the Retina) of the Globe: Mechanical Injuries, Perforating Injury

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Current Concepts and Management of Eye Injuries

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In spite of the new microsurgical techniques, the prognosis of perforating injuries in many cases is still quite poor and is dependent mostly on the severity of the primary injury. Because perforating eye injuries most commonly affect people at the working age, they cause loss of working days and, at the worst, permanent disability and, thus, great cost to the society. Furthermore, loss of visual function even in one eye is always a great individual tragedy. The term “perforating eye injury” describes a very specific type of ocular injury where there are two wounds that are caused by the same agent: one of the wounds is the entrance site, whereas the other one is the exit site of that agent. This terminology was defined by “the Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology System” (BETTS) (Kuhn et al. 2002). They are open-globe injuries as defined by BETTS and need to be treated as open-globe injuries in the first place.

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Ozdek, S., Hasanreisoglu, M. (2016). Current Concepts and Management of Severely Traumatized Tissues in the Inner Coatings (the Posterior Segment: the Ciliary Body, the Choroid, and the Retina) of the Globe: Mechanical Injuries, Perforating Injury. In: Sobacı, G. (eds) Current Concepts and Management of Eye Injuries. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7302-1_8

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