Metallic corneal foreign bodies: an occupational health hazard
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Metallic corneal foreign bodies: an occupational health hazard.
PURPOSE To analyze the risk factors, outcomes, demographic characteristics, and attitudes of workers with metallic corneal foreign body (FB) injury. METHODS One hundred consecutive patients who presented with a metallic corneal FB to the eye clinic at Diyarbakir Training and Research Hospital were evaluated. The patients completed a questionnaire and were examined to determine features of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0004-2749
DOI: 10.5935/0004-2749.20140102