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Sympathetic ophthalmia after injury in the iraq war.

Author(s): Freidlin J, Pak J, Tessler HH, Putterman AM, Goldstein DA

Affiliation(s): Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.

Publication date & source: 2006-03, Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg., 22(2):133-4.

Publication type: Case Reports

A 21-year-old US soldier received a penetrating eye injury while fighting in Iraq and was treated with evisceration. Sympathetic ophthalmia developed, which responded well to steroid treatment. This is the first case of sympathetic ophthalmia after a war injury reported since World War II.

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