Ocular ball bullet injury: detection of gonioscopically unrecognisable cyclodialysis by ultrasound biomicroscopy

E ditor ,-Ocular ball bullet (BB) injuries are vision threatening and more than 1200 people every year are reported to sustain these injuries in the United States. 1 Fewer cases with BB injuries have been reported in Japan. 2-4 Ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) is useful in the morphological evaluation...

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Published in:British journal of ophthalmology 1999-11, Vol.83 (11), p.1306-1306
Main Authors: ENDO, SHINICHIRO, MITSUKAWA, GENTEI, FUJISAWA, SAYOKO, HASHIMOTO, YOSHIHIRO, ISHIDA, NOBUO, YAMAGUCHI, TATSUO
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Anterior Chamber - diagnostic imaging
Anterior Chamber - injuries
Energy
Eye Injuries, Penetrating - diagnostic imaging
Firearm accidents & safety
Glaucoma
Humans
Injuries
Letters to the Editor
Male
Patients
Ultrasonic imaging
Ultrasonography
Wounds, Gunshot - diagnostic imaging
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Summary:E ditor ,-Ocular ball bullet (BB) injuries are vision threatening and more than 1200 people every year are reported to sustain these injuries in the United States. 1 Fewer cases with BB injuries have been reported in Japan. 2-4 Ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) is useful in the morphological evaluation of the anterior segment of the eye. 5 We report a 13 year old boy who sustained cyclodialysis from a BB injury, which was not revealed by gonioscopy but was by UBM. In the series of 140 ocular airgun injuries, the mean age of the victims was 13 years. 6 UBM might be well tolerated by even younger ages because of its non-invasive character. [...]the method seems to be useful to evaluate the anterior segment of the patients with closed globe injuries from BB guns.
ISSN:0007-1161
1468-2079
DOI:10.1136/bjo.83.11.1306