Blindness after reduction of facial fractures

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1821-1834

  Girotto, John A ^b   Gamble, William Bryan ^b   Robertson, Bradley ^b   Redett, Rick ^b   Muehlberger, Thomas ^b   Mayer, Mike ^b   Zinreich, James ^b   Iliff, Nicholas ^b   Miller, Neil ^b   Manson, Paul N ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TIMOLOL MALEATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031797402     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199811000-00003     Document Type: Article

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