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

Table 6

Distribution of causes by year.

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	Total
	N/%	N/%	N/%	N/%	N/%	N/%	N/%	N/%	N/%	N/%	N/%
Splashing	58/47.2%	93/64.6%	89/58.6%	108/57.4%	92/57.9%	74/55.6%	81/63.8%	72/59.5%	50/53.8%	68/68.0%	785/58.6%
Other explosives	39/31.7%	36/25.0%	42/27.6%	48/25.5%	44/27.7%	30/22.6%	24/18.9%	21/17.4%	20/21.5%	21/21.0%	325/24.3%
Fireworks	17/13.8%	4/2.8%	10/6.6%	5/2.7%	11/6.9%	11/8.3%	18/14.2%	12/9.9%	9/9.7%	4/4.0%	101/7.5%
Others	1/0.8%	5/3.5%	6/3.9%	14/7.4%	4/2.5%	11/8.3%	3/2.4%	4/3.3%	6/6.5%	2/2.0%	56/4.2%
Stabbing	8/6.5%	6/4.2%	5/3.3%	13/6.9%	8/5.0%	7/5.3%	1/0.8%	12/9.9%	8/8.6%	5/5.0%	73/5.4%
Total	123/100.0%	144/100.0%	152/100.0%	188/100.0%	159/100.0%	133/100.0%	127/100.0%	121/100.0%	93/100.0%	100/100.0%	1340/100.0%

Splashing of foreign bodies.