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Eyes with a perforating injury pose unique challenges for the surgeon because access to, and therefore closure of, the posterior (exit) wound is usually impossible, making retinal incarceration in the wound likely. This incarceration may occur primarily (i.e., at the time of the injury or during wound closure if it was possible to suture it) or secondarily (i.e., as the scar forms at the wound). Presence of a posterior (exit) wound therefore has important management but also prognostic implications: in a metaanalysis of 15 published reports, the anatomical success rate was only 69%, the functional only 56% [4].
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Kuhn, F. (2008). Perforating Injuries. In: Ocular Traumatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33825-3_24
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