Chemical burns to the eye: Paradigm shifts in treatment

Cornea

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 613-614

  Dohlman, Claes H ^a   Cade, Fabiano ^a   Pfister, Roswell ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Eye Research Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; CITRIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

AMNION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CHEMICAL BURN; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA ULCER; DRUG MECHANISM; EDITORIAL; EYE BURN; EYE LAVAGE; HUMAN; KERATOPROSTHESIS; PARACENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RETINA INJURY; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EYE BURNS; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; RABBITS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION;

EID: 79957698099     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3182012a4f     Document Type: Editorial

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