Ocular Trauma Score as prognostic value in traumatic ocular injuries due to rotating wire brushes
- 16 March 2017
- journal article
- trauma
- Published by Springer Nature in Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
- Vol. 255 (5) , 1037-1042
Abstract
Rotating wire brushes are used, e.g., for rust removal. Detaching fragments can cause severe eye injuries. The purpose of this study was to investigate mechanism, severity, clinical outcome, validity of Ocular Trauma Score (OTS) and to assess the likelihood of final visual acuity.Keywords
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