Suicide-related perforating injury of globe with nail gun

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 294-295

  Rofail, Marc ^a,b   Lee, Lawrence R ^a   Lee, Graham A ^a   Todd, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b City Eye Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nail gun; Penetration; Perforation; Suicide

Indexed keywords

MERSILENE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OPIATE; PERFLUOROOCTANE; SILICONE OIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EYE INJURY; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; LENSECTOMY; MALE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PSYCHOSIS; SENILE CATARACT; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SUTURE REMOVAL; VITRECTOMY; BRAIN INJURY; BUILDING MATERIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; INJURY; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; ORBIT; RADIOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; EYE FOREIGN BODIES; EYE INJURIES, PENETRATING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORBIT; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 23044494444     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2005.00979.x     Document Type: Article

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