Toy gun ocular injuries associated with festive holidays in Kuwait

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 247, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 463-467

  Bouhaimed, Manal ^a,b   Alwohaib, Manar ^b   Alabdulrazzaq, Shaikhah ^b   Jasem, Mohammad ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b IBN SINA HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Festive season; Hyphema; Injury; Ocular; Pediatric age group; Pellets; Toy guns; Traumatic cataract

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CORNEA EDEMA; EYE INJURY; EYELID EDEMA; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; KUWAIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LENS DISEASE; MALE; MYDRIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; TRAUMATIC CATARACT; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYE INJURIES; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HOLIDAYS; HUMANS; HYPHEMA; KUWAIT; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 62149091485     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0956-7     Document Type: Article

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