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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 1001 |
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“Fetus” shaped Bruckner reflex in hypermetrope with superior ectasia
Amber A Bhayana, Priyanka Prasad, Manpreet Kaur
Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
| Date of Web Publication | 11-Oct-2022 |
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Amber A Bhayana
Dr R P Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi - 110 029
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_733_22
How to cite this article:
Bhayana AA, Prasad P, Kaur M. “Fetus” shaped Bruckner reflex in hypermetrope with superior ectasia. Indian J Ophthalmol Case Rep 2022;2:1001 |
An 18-year-old healthy male, with a recent history on unstable refractive error in the left eye, was found to have hypermetropic reflex in the right eye [Figure 1]a and a “7 week fetus” shaped reflex in the left eye on distant indirect ophthalmoscopy [Figure 1]a and [Figure 1]b.[1] The corneal topography was flat (41D) in the right eye; the left eye showed an identical inferior topography with localized paracentral superior ectatic steepening [Figure 1]c. The inferior half of the “fetus” is because of an inferior hypermetropic cornea, and the superior half of the “fetus” is because of superposition of myopic reflex because of localized ectasia.[2],[3] | Figure 1: (a) Indirect ophthalmoloscopic Bruckner test shows hypermetropic reflex in the right eye (refractive error +3 diopter sphere) and fetus-shaped reflex in the left eye – arrow (best acceptance with -10 diopter sphere, -3 diopter cylinder at 180 degrees); the photograph was captured keeping a mobile camera at the eyepiece of an indirect ophthalmoscope with the latter's illumination turned on; (b) Picture showing resemblance of the reflex with the 7-week fetus; (c) Corneal topography confirming a flat cornea in the right eye, with the left eye having an inferiorly flat and superiorly steep ectatic cornea
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| 1. | Bhayana AA, Prasad P, Azad SV. Refractive errors and the red reflex- Bruckner test revisited. Indian J Ophthalmol 2019;67:1381-2.  [ PUBMED] [Full text] |
| 2. | Bhayana AA. Using Bruckner's test for gross keratometry screening. Indian J Ophthalmol 2019;67:1175. [ PUBMED] [Full text] |
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