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. 2020 Jul;34(7):1248-1250.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-0933-x. Epub 2020 May 6.

Changing trends of ocular trauma in the time of COVID-19 pandemic

Marco Pellegrini  1 , Matilde Roda  2 , Natalie Di Geronimo  2 , Enrico Lupardi  2 , Giuseppe Giannaccare  3 , Costantino Schiavi  2
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Changing trends of ocular trauma in the time of COVID-19 pandemic

Marco Pellegrini et al. Eye (Lond). 2020 Jul.
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Fig. 1. Number of eye injuries in the 2019 study period (from 10th March 2019 to 10th April, 2019) and 2020 study period (from 10th March 2020 to 10th April 2020).
(a) Eye injuries categorized by age. (b) Eye injuries categorized by sex. (c) Eye injuries categorized by mechanism of trauma. (d) Eye injuries categorized as minor or major injuries.
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