Penetrating eye injury following a snake attack [20]

Eye

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 279-280

  Sheard, R M ^a   Smith, G T ^a  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CORNEA INJURY; EYE INJURY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; LACERATION; LETTER; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; RETINA TEAR; SCLERA; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SNAKEBITE; SUTURING METHOD; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

EID: 0037353929     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6700309     Document Type: Letter

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