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A 49-year-old woman sustained corneal injury after explosion of a water heating system at home
Traumatic corneal endothelial rings are a rare consequence of small high-velocity foreign body projectiles hitting the cornea most commonly from blast injuries.[1]
In patients with endothelial corneal rings, the injury to the endothelial cells results from damage caused by mechanical stretching of the cornea
Summary
Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Torfe Medical Center, Tehran, Iran ORCID: Hossein Mohammad-Rabei: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3653-6272 Amir Arabi: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6523-7733. A 49-year-old woman sustained corneal injury after explosion of a water heating system at home. Multiple foreign bodies were seen on the epithelial surface of the cornea without causing any damage to the stromal tissue. Further examination revealed multiple annular ring-shaped opacities at the level of the corneal endothelium in both eyes
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