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Table 16 Changes in eyeball diagnostic categories

From: From post-war reconstruction to the twenty-first century – ophthalmic pathology in Freiburg 1945–2015: review of 39,256 surgical specimens from various topographical regions collected over 71 years at a large German tertiary eye care centre

Time period

1945–1954

1955–1964

1965–1974

1975–1984

1985–1994

1995–2004

2005–2015

Total number

Trauma

106 (28%)

109 (25%)

110 (24%)

283 (30%)

161 (26%)

46 (10%)

56 (20%)

871 (25%)

Malignant tumour

53 (14%)

96 (22%)

135 (29%)

183 (19%)

110 (18%)

84 (19%)

30 (11%)

691 (19%)

Glaucoma

53 (14%)

48 (11%)

58 (13%)

54 (5.7%)

51 (8.2%)

37 (8.4%)

4 (1.4%)

305 (8.6%)

Vascular disease

6 (1.6%)

8 (1.8%)

14 (3.0%)

101 (11%)

86 (14%)

42 (10%)

40 (14%)

297 (8.4%)

Bulbar inflammation

31 (8.3%)

29 (6.6%)

26 (5.6%)

53 (5.6%)

41 (6.6%)

27 (6.2%)

30 (11%)

237 (6.7%)

Postoperative complication

17 (4.6%)

14 (3.2%)

10 (2.2%)

46 (4.9%)

39 (6.3%)

62 (14%)

48 (17%)

236 (6.6%)

Retinal detachment

3 (0.8%)

10 (2.3%)

20 (4.3%)

30 (3.2%)

34 (5.5%)

35 (8.0%)

15 (5.4%)

147 (4.1%)

Phthisis

11 (2.9%)

8 (1.8%)

5 (1.1%)

8 (0.8%)

5 (0.8%)

38 (8.7%)

8 (2.9%)

83 (2.3%)

Other eyeball category

94 (25%)

116 (27%)

84 (18%)

187 (20%)

97 (15%)

67 (15%)

43 (17%)

688 (19%)

Sum

374

438

462

945

624

438

274

3,555

  1. Number and relative frequency of eyeballs with associated leading histological diagnostic categories within 10-year intervals (2005–2015: 11 years) during the observation period (1945–2015). Other eyeball category: see Table 17. Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding