[Pellet guns: a persistent threat to eyes].

Following a recent case of bilateral perforating ocular trauma by multiple pellets, the authors reviewed pellet traumatisms treated in the Emergency Department and operated on in the Ophthalmology Department of the Villeneuve-St-Georges Hospital over the past 15 years. At close range, pellet weapon shootings can generate lid, conjunctiva, and powder cornea tattoos; in these cases, the lesions are often unilateral. Shooting at longer range does not result in corneodermic tattoos, but because pellets scatter, binocular lesions frequently occur.

[Air bags and eye injuries: chemical burns and major traumatic ocular lesions--a case study].

The authors report a case of bilateral eye lesions with extended visual sequelae after the inflation of a driver's airbag during a head-on collision. The superficial facial lesions were accompanied by bilateral eye lesions, reaching both the anterior and posterior segments. Bilateral periorbital palpebral hematomas; voluminous bipalpebral edema combined with severe -conjunctival edema, corneal erosions, and edema; bilateral hyphema; pupillary changes with multiple iris sphincter breaks and weak pupillary light reflex only on the right eye; retrocession of the iridocorneal angle; and on fundus examination both retinas had posterior and peripheral hemorrhages and Berlin retinal edema.