Post-traumatic endophthalmitis following penetrating injury with dental needle [28]

Eye

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 981-982

  Lamont, M ^a   Booth, A ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; TRIAMCINOLONE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; B SCAN; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; DENTAL SURGERY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INJURY; EYE PAIN; EYE SYNECHIA; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HYPOPYON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LETTER; NEEDLE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PUPIL DISEASE; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA NECROSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BIOPSY;

EID: 33747081126     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6702096     Document Type: Letter

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