Frequency and Pattern of ocular trauma in children
Journal Title: Scholars Academic Journal of Biosciences - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Ocular trauma is a public health problem. It is a leading cause of blindness and vision impairment in children. Ocular trauma has some particularities in children. Indeed young children do not complaint about their vision; so they insidiously develop amblyopia and even blindness. The aim of our work was to study the pattern of ocular trauma in children in a tertiary hospital. Keywords: Ocular trauma, frequency, pattern, children.
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Théra JP, Hughes D, Tinley C, Bamani S, Traoré L
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