Chemical burns to the eye.
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Chemical burns to the eye.
SIR, Mr S J Morgan emphasises the need to distinguish between ammonia and antipersonnel or antirape sprays such as CS and Mace.' From personal experience over the past 18 months I can describe a very simple and rapid method of differentiation. In a series of 17 patients who had been assaulted with a pungent fluid one had a strong smell of ammonia on his clothes and clinically had features of a ...
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For the 14 months 1 January 1985 to 28 February 1986 all cases of chemical eye injury presenting to the Croydon Eye Unit were analysed. Of the 180 cases 19 were caused by assaults and 14 were admitted for treatment. The wide range of injurious substances is emphasised, and the circumstances of injury are listed. A discussion of the management of chemical eye injury is included.
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.72.8.640