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By Mallika Goyal, MD
Apollo Health City
Co-author(s): Sridhar A - Uploaded on Dec 16, 2012.
- Last modified by Chayal Patel on Dec 17, 2012.
- Reviewed by Chayal Patel
- Rating
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- Globe perforation with periocular anaesthesia needle
- Condition/keywords
- globe perforation
- Photographer
- Mallika Goyal, MD, Apollo Health City, Hyderabad, India
- Imaging device
- Fundus camera
- Description
- Left eye of a 42-year-old lady who developed endophthalmitis and retinal detachment following squint surgery under local anaesthesia. Endophthalmitis resolved following vitrectomy, and retinal detachment with retinal incarceration at the site of globe perforation, inferotemporal to the macula, was observed.