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About 5-10% of all casualties in a war zone have an injury to the eye. Many are isolated injuries to the eye and orbit, but nearly 20% are associated with penetrating wounds of the brain, skull or face. Corneal abrasions, foreign bodies and conjunctival lacerations are very common. About half of all wounds of the eye are penetrating wounds of the globe. The surrounding structures are commonly injured, 25% have eyelid or facial wounds and about the same proportion have fractures of the floor of the orbit.