Eye Trauma in Boxing

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 591-607

  Corrales, Gustavo ^a   Curreri, Anthony ^a  

^a NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boxing; Contrecoup; Coup; Ocular; Refractive surgery; Retinal detachment; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARTIFICIAL TEAR; CYCLOPLEGIC AGENT; STEROID;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BOXING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA SURGERY; CORNEA ULCER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EYE INJURY; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INCIDENCE; IRITIS; KERATECTOMY; KERATOMILEUSIS; LENS LUXATION; MORBIDITY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; ORBIT FRACTURE; RADIAL KERATOTOMY; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA TEAR; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SLIT LAMP; SPORT INJURY; TRAUMATIC CATARACT; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; EYE INJURIES; EYE SURGERY; INJURIES; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; ORBITAL FRACTURES; PROCEDURES; RETINAL DETACHMENT;

BOXING; EYE INJURIES; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; ORBITAL FRACTURES; REFRACTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70349988693     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2009.07.004     Document Type: Review

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