Epidemiology and etiology of chemical ocular injury: A brief review

Chemical ocular injury is one of the common ophthalmologic emergencies that can cause vision loss and serious complications. Despite all protective measures, it continues to be a serious public health problem, especially in young male patients. Although it is known that injuries occur most frequentl...

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Autores principales: Akgun, Zeynep, Selver, Ozlem Barut
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10013112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36926138
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v11.i6.1245
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description Chemical ocular injury is one of the common ophthalmologic emergencies that can cause vision loss and serious complications. Despite all protective measures, it continues to be a serious public health problem, especially in young male patients. Although it is known that injuries occur most frequently in the workplace and in young male patients, there is a variable frequency and distribution in different regions around the world. In addition, with the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, there are changing trends in ocular chemical injuries. This review aims to specify an update on the epidemiological and etiological features of ocular chemical injuries.
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spelling pubmed-100131122023-03-15 Epidemiology and etiology of chemical ocular injury: A brief review Akgun, Zeynep Selver, Ozlem Barut World J Clin Cases Minireviews Chemical ocular injury is one of the common ophthalmologic emergencies that can cause vision loss and serious complications. Despite all protective measures, it continues to be a serious public health problem, especially in young male patients. Although it is known that injuries occur most frequently in the workplace and in young male patients, there is a variable frequency and distribution in different regions around the world. In addition, with the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, there are changing trends in ocular chemical injuries. This review aims to specify an update on the epidemiological and etiological features of ocular chemical injuries. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2023-02-26 2023-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10013112/ /pubmed/36926138 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v11.i6.1245 Text en ©The Author(s) 2023. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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