Epidemiology of pediatric ocular injuries in Poland: cross-sectional study
Ewa Toruńska, Piotr Engelgardt, Maria Szwajkowska, Maciej Krzyżanowski · 2025
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Ewa Toruńska and co-authors chart, in a 2025 study, eye injuries in children treated at one Polish children's hospital over eight and a half years. Eye trauma can scar vision for life and shape a child's development. The team reviewed five hundred ninety patients up to age eighteen, sorting each injury by mechanism, the object involved, and who caused it. Boys made up two-thirds of cases, and the five-to-nine age band was the largest.
Most injuries came from active mechanisms, typically objects other than blunt ones, and many were self-inflicted. Animal-caused injuries clustered among girls. About one child in five lost some visual sharpness, and eleven were left blind in the injured eye, six without full recovery. The authors stress that the variety of causes defies single fixes and demands age-aware prevention.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ewa Toruńska, Piotr Engelgardt, Maria Szwajkowska, Maciej Krzyżanowski |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |