Anxiety levels and perceived pain intensity during intravitreal injections
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Intravitreal Injections
Man’s invasion into the sacred inner space of the eyethe vitreous cavity began around the same time he was attempting to invade the outer space i.e. in the 1950s. Von Sallman in1944 demonstrated the efficacy of Intravitreal antibiotics in a study in which he successfully cured endophthalmitis in rabbits by Intravitreal Penicillin injection. And thus began the era of Intravitreal antibiotics. Fi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Acta Ophthalmologica
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1755-375X
DOI: 10.1111/aos.12802