Resumen

FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ, Agustín; RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, Beatriz N.  y  MESA HERNANDEZ, Eddy. Traumatic lesions of the adnexa and of the anterior segment of the eye in fighters. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2003, vol.16, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3070.

A retrospective study was carried out with a sample of 71 fighters, whose reference structures were examined by direct ophthalmoscopy and ocular biomicroscopy within the 6 hours following their fights. As a result, it was observed that the affected adnexa were the eyelids with 5 hematomas, 4 edemas and 1 excoriation; and the conjunctiva with 4 hyperemias and 8 hemorrhages. In the anteriro segment, only the cornea was affected with 13 lesions in all, divided into 10 superficial and 3 deep excoriations.The traumatic lesions prevailing in the adnexa of the eye are those of the eyelids and the conjunctiva, whereas the predominating traumatic lesions of the anterior segment of the eye are those of the cornea. The left eye was the most affected and the most frequent lesions were in the categories 13 and 14, 17 and 18 and 19 and 34 years old in the cornea, the conjunctiva and the eyelids, respectively.

Palabras clave : ATHLETICS INJURIES; EYE INJURIES; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; BOXING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; DESCRIPTIVE.