Résumé
To present the visual outcomes and ocular sequelae of victims of cluster bombs. This retrospective, multicenter case series of ocular injury due to cluster bombs was conducted for 3 years after the war in South Lebanon [July 2006]. Data were gathered from the reports to the Information Management System for Mine Action. There were 308 victims of clusters bombs; 36 individuals were killed, of which 2 received ocular lacerations and; 272 individuals were injured with 18 receiving ocular injury. These 18 surviving individuals were assessed by the authors. Ocular injury occurred in 6.5% [20/308] of cluster bomb victims. Trauma to multiple organs occurred in 12 of 18 cases [67%] with ocular injury. Ocular findings included corneal or scleral lacerations [16 eyes], corneal foreign bodies [9 eyes], corneal decompensation [2 eyes], ruptured cataract [6 eyes], and intravitreal foreign bodies [10 eyes]. The corneas of one patient had extreme attenuation of the endothelium. Ocular injury occurred in 6.5% of cluster bomb victims and 67% of the patients with ocular injury sustained trauma to multiple organs. Visual morbidity in civilians is an additional reason for a global ban on the use of cluster bombs