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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.

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Diagnosis ocular ocular ultrasound ophthalmic diseases

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Ultrasonographic assessment of ophthalmic diseases in low-income countries

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