Macular Burns from Nonmedical Lasers

Laser devices are widely used for medical, military, industrial and entertainment purposes. This extensive and unregulated use of lasers can cause a variety of maculopathies that can result in permanent vision loss. Uncontrolled and inappropriate use of laser instruments should be prevented with str...

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Autores principales: Sayman Muslubaş, Işıl, Hocaoğlu, Mümin, Arf, Serra, Özdemir, Hakan, Karaçorlu, Murat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5076296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27800276
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.29577
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author Sayman Muslubaş, Işıl
Hocaoğlu, Mümin
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Özdemir, Hakan
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description Laser devices are widely used for medical, military, industrial and entertainment purposes. This extensive and unregulated use of lasers can cause a variety of maculopathies that can result in permanent vision loss. Uncontrolled and inappropriate use of laser instruments should be prevented with strict rules. We strongly emphasize the importance of changing the general misperception that lasers are safe to use for entertainment purposes. In this study we aim to report the clinical features of three patients with a history of maculopathy caused by exposure to laser light in an entertainment venue.
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spelling pubmed-50762962016-10-31 Macular Burns from Nonmedical Lasers Sayman Muslubaş, Işıl Hocaoğlu, Mümin Arf, Serra Özdemir, Hakan Karaçorlu, Murat Turk J Ophthalmol Case Report Laser devices are widely used for medical, military, industrial and entertainment purposes. This extensive and unregulated use of lasers can cause a variety of maculopathies that can result in permanent vision loss. Uncontrolled and inappropriate use of laser instruments should be prevented with strict rules. We strongly emphasize the importance of changing the general misperception that lasers are safe to use for entertainment purposes. In this study we aim to report the clinical features of three patients with a history of maculopathy caused by exposure to laser light in an entertainment venue. Galenos Publishing 2016-06 2016-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5076296/ /pubmed/27800276 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.29577 Text en ©Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology, Published by Galenos Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ 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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