The organization of specialized ophthalmic care during the Great Patriotic War (to the 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War End)

The article describes the organization of ophthalmic care to wounded patients during the Great Patriotic War at various evacuation phases. The amount of surgeries performed in army and front-line hospitals is shown. The introduction into practice of military ophthalmologists of cornea suturing in perforating eyeball wounds, of intraocular foreign body (IOFB) X-ray localization, and of the diascleral IOFB removal method