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Inadvertent penetrating injury to the globe with periocular corticosteroid injection
V K Jain1, R N Mames, S McGorray
1Department of Ophthalmology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610-0284.
Ophthalmic Surgery
|September 1, 1991
Abstract:
We surveyed 488 physicians regarding their experience with inadvertent ocular penetration with steroid injections over a 5-year period. Sixty-six cases of ocular penetration were reported by the 209 physicians who responded. Of the 18 patients whose retinal status was known, 12 (67%) had retinal detachments resulting from the penetration. Final visual acuities in 85% of the 26 cases were worse than 20/100.