Bedside Emergency Department Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Ocular Pathology
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Bedside emergency department ultrasonography in the evaluation of ocular pathology.
The number of potential uses of emergency department (ED) ultrasound is growing. This brief report describes its use in two ED patients who presented with acute ocular pathology. The diagnoses were quickly made with ED ultrasound, and subsequently confirmed with more traditional methods of ocular evaluation.
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1069-6563,1553-2712
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2000.tb02080.x