Blindness after facial fractures: A 19-year retrospective study

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 229-237

  Ansari, Mohammad Hussein ^a,b  

^a HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Mobasher Emergency Hospital   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE INJURY; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORBIT FRACTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BLINDNESS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EYE INJURIES; FACIAL BONES; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IRAN; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL FRACTURES; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 12844266963     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2004.05.221     Document Type: Article

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