Firecracker eye injuries during Deepavali festival: A case series

We report a large series of ocular injuries caused by fire-crackers. This study was a hospital-based, singlecenter, retrospective case series in which the records of 51 patients with ocular injuries were analyzed. Injuries were classified according to Birmingham eye trauma terminology system (BETTS)...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Ravi, Puttanna, Manohar, Sriprakash, K S, Sujatha Rathod, B L, Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20195044
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.60095
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author Kumar, Ravi
Puttanna, Manohar
Sriprakash, K S
Sujatha Rathod, B L
Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C
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description We report a large series of ocular injuries caused by fire-crackers. This study was a hospital-based, singlecenter, retrospective case series in which the records of 51 patients with ocular injuries were analyzed. Injuries were classified according to Birmingham eye trauma terminology system (BETTS). Visual outcomes before and after the intervention were recorded. Ten patients were admitted for further management. As ocular firecracker injuries result in significant morbidity, public education regarding proper use of firecrackers may help in reducing the incidence of ocular injuries.
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spelling pubmed-28544522010-04-16 Firecracker eye injuries during Deepavali festival: A case series Kumar, Ravi Puttanna, Manohar Sriprakash, K S Sujatha Rathod, B L Prabhakaran, Venkatesh C Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications We report a large series of ocular injuries caused by fire-crackers. This study was a hospital-based, singlecenter, retrospective case series in which the records of 51 patients with ocular injuries were analyzed. Injuries were classified according to Birmingham eye trauma terminology system (BETTS). Visual outcomes before and after the intervention were recorded. Ten patients were admitted for further management. As ocular firecracker injuries result in significant morbidity, public education regarding proper use of firecrackers may help in reducing the incidence of ocular injuries. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2854452/ /pubmed/20195044 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.60095 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kumar, Ravi
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Firecracker eye injuries during Deepavali festival: A case series
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title_full Firecracker eye injuries during Deepavali festival: A case series
title_fullStr Firecracker eye injuries during Deepavali festival: A case series
title_full_unstemmed Firecracker eye injuries during Deepavali festival: A case series
title_short Firecracker eye injuries during Deepavali festival: A case series
title_sort firecracker eye injuries during deepavali festival: a case series
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854452/
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