Research Article

Etiologic Causes and Epidemiological Characteristics of Patients with Intraocular Foreign Bodies: Retrospective Analysis of 1340 Cases over Ten Years

Table 2

Distribution of causes by age group.

0–910–1920–2930–3940–4950–5960−Total
N/%N/%N/%N/%N/%N/%N/%N/%

Splashing13/16.9%80/49.1%197/67.5%216/61.7%192/61.0%63/57.8%24/70.6%785/58.6%
Other explosives9/11.7%39/23.9%49/16.8%97/27.7%97/30.8%29/26.6%5/14.7%325/24.3%
Fireworks32/41.6%25/15.3%11/3.8%11/3.1%11/3.5%7/6.4%4/11.8%101/7.5%
Stabbing14/18.2%14/8.6%20/6.8%14/4.0%7/2.2%4/3.7%0/0.0%73/5.4%
Others9/11.7%5/3.1%15/5.1%12/3.4%8/2.5%6/5.5%1/2.9%56/4.2%
Total77/100.0%163/100.0%292/100.0%350/100.0%315/100.0%109/100.0%34/100.0%1340/100.0%

Splashing of foreign bodies.