Pujari Amar, Swamy Deepa R, Singh Rashmi, Mukhija Ritika, Chawla Rohan, Kumar Atul
1 Senior Resident, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
2 Assistant Professor, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Trop Doct. 2018 Oct;48(4):294-297. doi: 10.1177/0049475518787379. Epub 2018 Jul 17.
We undertook a study between December 2016 and February 2017 on 1637 of 2101 patients with clearly documented findings. These underwent ocular B-scan ultrasonography (USG). Their ages were in the range of 10 days to 92 years; among these patients, 921 (56.26%) were male and 224 (13.68%) were children. Among the adults, 669 (40.86%) patients had anterior segment and 636 (38.85%) had posterior segment pathology. In addition, there were 108 (6.59%) with orbital pathology. Our experience is that USG is an effective, quick, low-cost and non-invasive diagnostic tool for the diagnosis of various ocular and orbital conditions in high patient volume centres (including children and adults) especially where resources are limited.
