Visual Outcome and Ocular Survival after Sports Related Ocular Trauma in Playing Golf

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 648-650

  Weitgasser, Ursula ^a,c   Wackernagel, Werner ^a   Oetsch, Katharine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b ELISABETHINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c Universitats Augenklinik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ocular trauma; Sports related eye injuries

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; AUSTRIA; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENUCLEATION; EYE INJURY; EYE RUPTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RUPTURE; SPORT INJURY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 1942508671     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000062970.91139.05     Document Type: Review

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