Sussex Eye Hospital sports injuries.
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Sussex Eye Hospital sports injuries.
To assess the prevalence of sports eye injuries in our area a register was kept over the 18 months from October 1982 to March 1984. Squash, association football, badminton, and tennis were the main offenders. The severest injury was from a golf ball, involving a fractured zygoma. There was one retinal dialysis, and one lens dislocation requiring extraction. Spectacles were broken in six cases a...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.70.10.748