TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Occupational accidents and eye injuries treated at the Rambam Medical Center
JO  - Harefuah
A1  - Pikkel, J.
A1  - Gelfand, Y.
A1  - Miller, B.
SP  - 273
EP  - 4, 335
VL  - 133
IS  - 7-8
N2  - To determine the prevalence of occupation-related eye injuries, we analyzed the records of 24,632 patients treated at our emergency surgical department over a 3-year period. Occupational accidents accounted for 17.6% of such cases. A third of them (1374 patients) were referred to the ophthalmic emergency room for further examination. In 89% (1223) of these, at least 1 pathological ocular finding was detected, and 8.3% (114) of them were hospitalized. Penetrating eye injuries were found in 5.2% (72). The commonest eye injury was corneal foreign body found in 42.8%.<p /> <p>Language: he</p> 
LA  - he
SN  - 0017-7768
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -