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Editor,—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.2-4Ultrasound 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. To our knowledge, this is the first report describing detection of cyclodialysis from BB injury by UBM.
CASE REPORT
A 13 year old boy sustained an ocular BB injury in his left eye and visited us the following day. The boy was accidentally shot by his elder brother. The BB was made of plastic. His best corrected visual acuity was right eye, 1.2 and left eye, 0.06. Intraocular pressure was right eye, 17 mm Hg and left eye, 11 mm Hg. Slit lamp examination …