Composition of intraocular foreign bodies: experimental study of ultrasonographic presentation

PURPOSE: To investigate the reliability of ultrasound in determining the size and identify the sonographic features and artifacts generated by intraocular foreign bodies of different materials. METHODS: Experimental study using 36 enucleated porcine eyes. Fragments of nine different compositions (wo...

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Main Authors: Márcio Augusto Nogueira Costa, Patrícia Novita Garcia, Letícia Fernandes Barroso, Marco Antonio Ferreira, Érika Araki Okuda, Norma Allemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Conselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia 2013-02-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-27492013000100005&lng=en&tlng=en