Eye injuries few but severe in Paris attacks

PARIS — The victims of the Nov. 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris had few orbital and/or ocular injuries, but the injuries were extremely severe with mostly unfavorable prognoses, Nathalie Butel, MD, said at the meeting of the French Society of Ophthalmology.At 9:20 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., two suicide attacks were carried out at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, and another one followed at 9:50 p.m. At 9:35 p.m., a shooting occurred outside cafes in the 10th arrondissement, followed by another suicide attack. At 9:40 p.m., several hundred hostages (Read more...)

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