Paintball trauma and mechanisms of optic nerve injury: Rotational avulsion and rebound evulsion

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 9624-9628

  Sponsel, William E ^a   Gray, Walt ^b   Groth, Sylvia L ^c   Stern, Amber R ^d   Walker, James D ^e  

^a WESMD Professional Association   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE INJURY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SWINE; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; BLUNT TRAUMA; INJURY; ORBIT; PATHOLOGY; RECREATION; RUPTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE INJURIES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; ORBIT; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; ROTATION; RUPTURE; SWINE; VIDEO RECORDING; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84862833561     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8472     Document Type: Article

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