Abstract

Current classification of ocular trauma has been made by Kuhn et al. [1]. All eye injuries are divided in open globe and closed globe types. To describe the outer covering of sclera and cornea they have used the term eye wall. Closed globe injuries are those in which there is no full thickness wound in the eye wall whereas in open globe type there is a full thickness wound in the eye wall. From a long time, eyeball injuries have been classified as perforating and non-peforating. In a perforating injury there is a full thickness wound of eyeball and not eye wall). In other words in perforation not only sclera but corresponding parts of choroid and retina are also perforated resulting in communication of the interior and the exterior of eye ball. This does not apply to corneal injuries.