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Table 1 Egge’s Classification of Retinal Hemorrhage

From: Retinal abnormalities in universal eye screening of healthy, full-term newborn infants in Jakarta. The incidence and its risk factors: a pilot study

Grades

Definition

Grade I

Small, mainly less than a quarter of the disc diameter and relatively few hemorrhages in one or both eyes

Grade II

Medium to large hemorrhages which were not exceeding the optic disc diameter in size, or a combination of few such hemorrhages and many smaller ones in one or both eyes

Grade III

Larger hemorrhages, the diameter of which were larger than that of the optic disc, in one or both eyes and sometimes also combined with smaller and/or larger apparently pre-retinal hemorrhages