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The Traumatized Eye

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Around one third of all the globes received in a routine laboratory service will exhibit pathological changes that illustrate the final stages of processes initiated by trauma. While “trauma” embraces all forms of insult (e.g., chemical, toxic, radiation, etc.), in practice, mechanical injury is the most frequently encountered. The most common specimen is the irreparable eye enucleated immediately or within a day or two of an injury. The next group are those in which repair is attempted but there is evidence of continuing inflammation and the eye is enucleated to avoid the risk of sympathetic endophthalmitis. There are effects of late stage trauma on all ocular structures. The most serious and more common long-term complications are sympathetic endophthalmitis and phthisis bulbi. Another form of trauma is seen in infants subject to non-accidental injury where the pathologist may be required to give a detailed report of retinal haemorrhages.

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Roberts, F., Thum, C.K. (2014). The Traumatized Eye. In: Lee's Ophthalmic Histopathology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2476-4_2

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