@article{ref1,
title="Ocular injuries associated with the use of airguns",
journal="Eye",
year="1987",
author="Moore, A. T. and McCartney, A. and Cooling, R. J.",
volume="1 ( Pt 3)",
number="",
pages="422-429",
abstract="Sixty patients with eye injuries resulting from the use of airguns were admitted to a large eye hospital over an 11-year period. The typical patient was a young male teenager; 70 per cent of patients were under the age of 17, the age at which it is legally permissible to own an air weapon. In 4 cases the missile lodged in the ocular adnexae, in 18 cases there was a penetrating eye injury and in 38 patients blunt nonpenetrating eye injury. The prognosis for visual recovery was poor especially following penetration of the globe; visual acuity was reduced to 6/60 or less in 40 per cent of all eyes and in 18 per cent the injured eye was excised.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0950-222X",
doi="10.1038/eye.1987.64",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/eye.1987.64"
}