A Prospective Cohort Study On The Epidemiology Of Ocular Trauma Associated With Closed‑globe Injuries In Pediatric Age Group Purpose : To study the epidemiology of mechanical ocular trauma and closed globe injury using the Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology System in patients belonging to the pediatric age group. Methods: This work involved a prospective cohort study of all ocular trauma patients (pediatric age group) registered between 2002 and 2017 at the ocular trauma care center. The data was collected using the international ocular trauma society form through our online MIS data and exported to the Excel sheet.The statistical analyses including the univariate analysis and cross tabulation were carried out using SPSS 22 software.
Results : Our cohort consisted of 12687 patients with mechanical ocular trauma. There were 7546 (59.4%) eyes with open globe ocular injuries and 5328…
