Laser eye injuries in military occupations

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 947-952

  Harris, Mark D ^b   Lincoln, Andrew E ^a   Amoroso, Paul J ^c   Stuck, Bruce ^c   Sliney, David ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD   (Iraq)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Eye; Injury; Laser; Mechanisms; Military

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA INJURY; EYE INJURY; EYE PROTECTION; HUMAN; LASER; NEODYMIUM LASER; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; RETINA INJURY; TRAINING;

ADULT; EYE INJURIES; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEODYMIUM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RETINA; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; SCOTOMA;

PHRAGMITES;

EID: 0041836258     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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