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Modern Management of Ophthalmic Injuries

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Operative Techniques and Recent Advances in Acute Care and Emergency Surgery

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This chapter covers the management of ocular injuries in the adult patient, with medical and surgical treatment options, divided by the anatomical region of the eye involved.

It’s a practical reference for ophthalmologists and other physicians treating ocular trauma in the emergency room.

It contains up-to-date information on terminology, classification, and epidemiology and includes a score to predict final visual acuity of traumatized eyes.

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    Paolo Arpa, Marco Azzolini & Luca Biraghi

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Arpa, P., Azzolini, M., Biraghi, L. (2019). Modern Management of Ophthalmic Injuries. In: Aseni, P., De Carlis, L., Mazzola, A., Grande, A.M. (eds) Operative Techniques and Recent Advances in Acute Care and Emergency Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95114-0_13

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