Ocular problems in military free fall parachutists

Military Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 797-800

  Gruppo, Leonard ^a   Mader, Thomas H ^a   Wedmore, Ian ^a  

^a CARL R DARNALL ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; DESICCATION; EYE DISEASE; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICE; FREEZING; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARACHUTIST; SYMPTOM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036799267     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/167.10.797     Document Type: Article

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