Closed-Eye Ocular Injuries in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Glenn C. Cockerham,Thomas A. Rice,Eva H. Hewes,Kimberly Peele Cockerham,Sonne Lemke,Gloria Wang,Richard C. Lin,Catherine Glynn-Milley,Lars Zumhagen

Closed-Eye Ocular Injuries in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

2011

Glenn C. Cockerham
Thomas A. Rice
Eva H. Hewes
Kimberly Peele Cockerham
Sonne Lemke
Gloria Wang
Richard C. Lin
Catherine Glynn-Milley
Lars Zumhagen

Comprehensive ophthalmic evaluation was conducted in 46 veterans hospitalized because of traumatic brain injury after blast exposure in Iraq or Afghanistan. Evidence of closed-eye injury was found in 20 of these patients.

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Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
Injury prevention
Medical emergency
Traumatic brain injury
Medicine
poison control
Emergency medicine
Surgery
Human factors and ergonomics
blast exposure
accident prevention

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