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Ocular morbidity among earthquake survivors in a community based hospital in Nepal
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“...children with ocular trauma represented 34.5% of all eye injuries.16 As for the nature of ocular injuries, all cases in this study were closed globe injuries which is consistent with findings of other studies done in other hospitals in Nepal.9-13'17 This finding indeed highlights the protective function of orbital bones and eyelids which protects the inner ocular vulnerable structures. Most frequent ocular finding documented in this study was eyelid lacerations with or without surrounding structure
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followed by conjunctival inflammations. There were 17 cases of episcleral inflammations also which maybe due to allergy to dust and dander released from collapsed houses as allergy has been associated with occurrence of episcleritis in other studies also.18 There were three cases of lateral rectus palsy with patients presenting with esotropia and diplopia which can be explained by the fact that most of the injuries were due to collapsed houses and involved associated head and neck injuries. Another...”