Two cases of retention of wooden foreign bodies in orbit of eye

British Medical Journal

Volumn 316, Issue 7141, 1998, Pages 1363-1364

  Tsaloumas, M D ^a   Potamitis, T ^a   Kritzinger, E E ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; MALE; ORBIT INJURY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EYE FOREIGN BODIES; EYE INJURIES, PENETRATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORBIT; WOOD;

EID: 0032474272     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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