Accidental Macular Injury from Prolonged Viewing of a Plasma Flash Produced by a Femtosecond Laser

Ophthalmology

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 972-975

  Yang, Xiaobo ^a   Jiang, Fagang ^a   Song, Yanping ^b   Peng, Chong ^a   Sheng, Shuangyan ^a   Li, Xiaoqing ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN GENERAL HOSPITAL OF GUANGZHOU COMMAND   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSTON; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; AMSLER GRID TEST; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LASER; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA INJURY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; EYE INJURIES; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; SCOTOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77951652376     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.10.020     Document Type: Article

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