Ocular trauma resulting from paintball injury

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 247, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 469-475

  Pahk, Patricia J ^a,b   Adelman, Ron A ^b  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocular trauma; Paintball; Sports injury

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHOROID DETACHMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOTHERAPY; EYE INJURY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; IRIS DISEASE; KERATOPATHY; LENS DISEASE; LENS SUBLUXATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA TEAR; RETINOPEXY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; SPORT INJURY; TRAUMATIC CATARACT; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREORETINOPATHY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHILD; EYE INJURIES; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPHEMA; MALE; PAINT; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; RETINAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 62149085217     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0985-2     Document Type: Article

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