Attempted bilateral manual enucleation (Gouging) during a physical assault

Ophthalmology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 575-577

  Shneck, Marina ^a,b   Oshry, Tzafrir ^a   Marcus, Mira ^a   Lifshitz, Tova ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; AVULSION INJURY; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENUCLEATION; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GOUGING; HUMAN; MUSCLE INJURY; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037371751     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(02)01768-2     Document Type: Article

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