The Persian Wednesday Eve Festival "Charshanbe-Soori" fireworks eye injuries: A case series

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-24

  Mansouri, Mohammad Reza ^a   Mohammadi, Seyed Farzad ^a,b   Hatef, Elham ^a,b   Rahbari, Hamed ^b   Khazanehdari, Mohammad Shahram ^a   Zandi, Pouya ^a   Moghimi, Sasan ^a   Piri, Niloofar ^a   Fahim, Alireza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

"Charshanbe Soori" Fireworks; Eye injuries; Persian Wednesday Eve Festival

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CORNEA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENUCLEATION; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; FIRE; FIREWORKS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLAST INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXPLOSIONS; EYE INJURIES; FEMALE; HOLIDAYS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33847384976     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: 17445086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09286580600878836     Document Type: Article

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