European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

A direct blow to the eye and the surrounding tissue will result in a contusional injury of
varying severity; from “black eye” to severe intraocular disruption. When the eye is struck, an
anteroposterior compression will result with concomitant stretch in the equatorial plane with
subsequent contusional and tearing damage. A pre-structured and pretested questionnaire was
used to gather information after obtaining an oral informed consent from the study subject
and maintaining confidentiality. The relatives or attendants will be interviewed where the
condition of the victims did not warrant the interview. In our study we found that 68% of the
orbital fractures were unilateral while 32% were bilateral. Out of which the most common
wall to be fractures was the floor 59(59%) patients followed by 34(34%) lateral wall fracture
31(31%) medial wall and 11(11%) had roof fracture.