| Literature DB >> 16550060 |
Julie Freidlin1, John Pak, Howard H Tessler, Allen M Putterman, Debra A Goldstein.
Abstract
A 21-year-old US soldier received a penetrating eye injury while fighting in Iraq and was treated with evisceration. Sympathetic ophthalmia developed, which responded well to steroid treatment. This is the first case of sympathetic ophthalmia after a war injury reported since World War II.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16550060 DOI： 10.1097/01.iop.0000203495.67894.c7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg ISSN： 0740-9303 Impact factor: 1.746