The Persian Wednesday Eve Festival "Charshanbe-Soori" fireworks eye injuries: a case series.

Purpose: To describe the clinical spectrum and severity of eye injuries sustained during the Persian Wednesday Eve Festival "Charshanbe-Soori" and to identify the fireworks devices involved.

Methods: Prospectively, consecutive patients treated for fireworks-related eye injuries in the emergency room at Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, over 3 days around the occasion in 2000, 2001, and 2002 were studied.

Results: Four hundred thirty-seven cases of eye injuries with an age range of 2-74 (median 17; SD 11.