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Volume 329:364 July 29, 1993 Number 5
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Ice Hockey and Spectators' Eye Injuries

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To the Editor: In recent years, there has been a decline in the incidence of reported ocular injuries in the sport most frequently associated with them -- hockey.1 Injuries to spectators' eyes have received much less attention.

We treated three patients who had been struck in the face with hockey pucks while attending ice-hockey games. A 14-year-old girl had a traumatic hyphema (blood in the anterior chamber of the eye) and nasal fracture. She recovered normal vision, but has anterior-chamber angle recession, which places her at risk for glaucoma. A 15-year-old girl had a traumatic hyphema, facial laceration, and a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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