Identification of foreign bodies on the ocular surface after uneventful intravitreal injections

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Jørgensen, Jesper S ^a   Kemp, Henrik ^a   Sørensen, Torben L ^a  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYBUPROCAINE; PLASTIC; POVIDONE IODINE; RANIBIZUMAB; TETRACAINE;

DISINFECTION; EYE DISCOMFORT; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; LETTER; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYRINGE;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CORNEAL DISEASES; EYE FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; PLASTICS;

EID: 84870547174     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2012.02405.x     Document Type: Letter

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