Determination of significant parameters for eye injury risk from projectiles

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 960-964

  Duma, Stefan M ^a,c   Ng, Tracy P ^a   Kennedy, Eric A ^a   Stitzel, Joel D ^a   Herring, Ian P ^a   Kuhn, Ferenc ^b  

^a Medical Center Boulevard   (United States)

^b American Society of Ocular Trauma   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy; Eye injuries; Normalized energy; Projectile; Risk predictors

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ABRASION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA INJURY; ENERGY; EYE INJURY; FOAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPHEMA; LENS LUXATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA INJURY; RISK FACTOR; RUPTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE INJURY; VELOCITY;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EYE INJURIES; FORENSIC BALLISTICS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 30044443855     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000174830.55282.32     Document Type: Article

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