title: Ocular injuries from flying bottle caps.
abstract: Three cases of serious eye injury are described from flying metal caps of carbonated drink bottles. The injuries occurred while attempting to open the bottle in an unconventional and dangerous way. Though injuries from flying bottle caps have been described before, they have occurred when the bottle exploded. This is the first report of eye injuries caused by bottle caps while opening and are similar to the injuries caused by champagne corks.
authors.affiliation: Eye Hospital Colombo.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fonseka
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home; D000328:Adult; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000293:injuries