Incidence and severity of ocular and adnexal injuries during the Second Lebanon War among Israeli soldiers and civilians

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 249, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1771-1774

  Barak, Adiel ^g   Elhalel, Amir ^a,b   Pikkel, Joseph ^c   Krauss, Eli ^d   Miller, Benjamin ^e,f  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Rebecca Sieff Government Hospital   (Israel)

^d WESTERN GALILEE HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^e RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Ocular trauma; War related injury

Indexed keywords

ADNEXAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CHILD; CIVILIAN; CLOSE GLOBE INJURY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; ENUCLEATION; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; LETHALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; OPEN GLOBE INJURY; PERIOCULAR AREA; POSTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOLDIER; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EYE FOREIGN BODIES; EYE INJURIES, PENETRATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856242941     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-011-1659-z     Document Type: Article

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