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A 47-year-old man with a necrotic wound after trauma
Digital Journal of Ophthalmology 2021
Volume 27, Number 2
May 17, 2021
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Donald C. Hubbard II, BS | Texas A&M College of Medicine
Jacob W. Fleenor, MD | Baylor Scott and White Eye Institute and Texas A&M College of Medicine
Maxwell G. Su, MD | Baylor Scott and White Eye Institute and Texas A&M College of Medicine
Jonathan H. Tsai, MD | Baylor Scott and White Eye Institute and Texas A&M College of Medicine



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