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Abstract
Eighteen million people worldwide have uniocular blindness from traumatic injury. Injuries occur disproportionally commonly in childhood. Every year a quarter of a million children present with serious ocular trauma. For the vast majority the injury is preventable. We review the international literature that identifies high-risk circumstances.Entities:
Keywords: blindness; childhood eye injury; ocular trauma; penetrating eye injury; perforating eye injury; prevention
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Year: 2013 PMID： 23969021 DOI： 10.1016/j.survophthal.2012.10.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Surv Ophthalmol ISSN： 0039-6257 Impact factor: 6.048