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Vol. 32 No. 2 (2026)

Original Articles
Pickleball-related eye injuries presenting to United States emergency departments, 2010-2023
Evaluation of artificial language-adjusted readability on cataract surgery queries

Case Reports
Bilateral Boston Keratoprosthesis for treatment of a variant of keratitis–ichthyosis–deafness syndrome
Isolated ocular relapse in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a case report
Extensive orbital invasion by conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma in an anophthalmic socket: a case report
Intraocular inflammation and presumed retinal vasculitis following initial pegcetacoplan intravitreal injection

Images & Videos
Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
Horseshoe tears in the retina after traumatic posterior vitreous detachment
A quadruple fundal coloboma
Moniliform blepharosis in lipoid proteinosis
Conjunctival ulcers: a rare feature of ocular herpes simplex virus infection
Choriretinal lacunae aid in the diagnosis of Aicardi syndrome
Pseudoexfoliative material on an intraocular lens
Bull’s eye maculopathy in a young patient with systemic lupus erythematosus
Persistent pupillary membrane type 2
Cilium incarnatum internum
Bilateral prepapillary vascular loops in a pediatric patient
Macular telangiectasia type 2 complicated with choroidal neovascularization
Anterior suprachoroidal hemorrhage abutting anterior chamber intraocular lens
Spontaneously dislocated lens with ring-shaped pigmentation

Published: 2026-06-30

Original Articles

Number of pickleball-related eye injuries treated in United States emergency departments by year, 2010-2023.

Pickleball-related eye injuries presenting to United States emergency departments, 2010-2023

Alisha Kamboj, MD, MBA, Sandhya Kistamgari, MPH, Ali Mokhtarzadeh, MD, Andrew R. Harrison, MD, Gary A. Smith, MD, DrPH
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Before prompting all AI models to re-answer at a 6th-grade reading level, more answers were judged to be readable at a 6th-grade level by all three graders than the number of answers considered to be readable at a 6th-grade reading level as determined by readability grade level formulas.

Evaluation of artificial language-adjusted readability on cataract surgery queries

Michael X. Lin, BA, Azam S. Husain, MD, Libby Wei, MD, Isa S. K. Mohammed, MD, Sara Francomacaro, MD, Wuqaas M. Munir, MD
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Case Reports

Left eye KPro at 4-month follow-up.

Bilateral Boston Keratoprosthesis for treatment of a variant of keratitis–ichthyosis–deafness syndrome

Maria Pilar Jerabek, MD, Federico Cremona, MD
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Hypopyon-like mass in the left eye, with increased vascularization of the iris.

Isolated ocular relapse in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a case report

Joseph Van Aerschot, MD, Stéphanie Goes, MD, Ingele Casteels, MD, PhD, Heidi Segers, MD, PhD, Catherine Cassiman, MD, PhD
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Squamous cell carcinoma in the inferolateral aspect of conjunctiva of the lower lid in anophthalmic socket. Note subtle plaque of keratinazation. with no feeding vessels (white arrow).

Extensive orbital invasion by conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma in an anophthalmic socket: a case report

Vijay K. Selva, Yinon Shapira, MD, Dinesh Selva, MBBS(Hons), DHSc, FRANZCO, FRACS
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OCT macula on day 56 postinjection had poor image quality due to obstructed view to the posterior segment. Macular thinning and hyperreflectivity are indicative of ischemia.

Intraocular inflammation and presumed retinal vasculitis following initial pegcetacoplan intravitreal injection

Josephine R. Seela, MD, Talhah Zubair, MD, Tommaso Vagaggini, MD, David F. Williams, MD
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Images & Videos

Proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Stephen A. Zorc, PhD, Matthew Wilneff, MD, Eric M. Shrier, DO, FAAO
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Horseshoe tears in the retina

Horseshoe tears in the retina after traumatic posterior vitreous detachment

Stephen A. Zorc, PhD, Matthew Wilneff, MD, Eric M. Shrier, DO, FAAO
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Fundus examination revealed a normal optic disc surrounded by peripapillary atrophy enclosing a chorioretinal coloboma (C, black arrow) at its inferior border and a combination of Ida Mann type (5, 6, 7) chorioretinal colobomas (C, white arrows) connected by bridging retinal tissue.

A quadruple fundal coloboma

Vinayak S. Gadad, MBBS, MS, Annu Joon, MBBS, MS, DNB, FICO, Ayush Arya, MBBS, MS
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Incisional biopsy revealed irregular acanthosis (white arrow), deposition of eosinophilic material in the dermis (black arrow) and pinkish material around blood vessels and adnexa (yellow arrow), confirming the diagnosis of lipoid proteinosis.

Moniliform blepharosis in lipoid proteinosis

Rohan Arora, MBBS, DNB, Krishnakumar Subramanian, MBBS, MD, Vikas Menon, MBBS, DNB
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Conjunctival hyperemia and ulcers were observed in the perilimbal, bulbar, and tarsal conjunctiva, which stained positively with fluorescein under a cobalt-blue filter.

Conjunctival ulcers: a rare feature of ocular herpes simplex virus infection

Pedro M. M. Martins, MD, Jorge V. P. Costa, MD, Carolina J. Madeira, MD
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Fundus examination revealed chorioretinal lacunae involving the posterior pole in right eye and retinal detachment in the left eye.

Chorioretinal lacunae aid in the diagnosis of Aicardi syndrome

Vipasha Sharma, MD, Ayushi Sinha, MD, Rohan Chawla, MD
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Slit lamp examination revealed pseudoexfoliation material on the anterior surface of the IOL in multiple linear patterns in the right eye on oblique illumination.

Pseudoexfoliative material on an intraocular lens

Mohamed M. Khodeiry, MD, Richard K. Lee, MD, PhD
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Funduscopic examination revealed atrophic bull’s eye maculopathy, with concentric rings of hypopigmentation and hyperpigmentation surrounding the fovea in the right eye.

Bull’s eye maculopathy in a young patient with systemic lupus erythematosus

Taha Boutaj, MD, Hamza Lazaar, MD, Romaissae Benkirane, MD, Latifa Sbai, MD, Soufiane Ragala, MD, Abdellah Amazouzi, MD, Samira Tachfouti, MD, Ouafa Cherkaoui, MD
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After dilation, there was a radial opacity in the lens seen at at 7 o’clock in the left eye.

Persistent pupillary membrane type 2

Balamurugan Ramatchandirane, MBBS, MS, Goudappagoud R. Patil, MBBS, MS, Shubhangi S.N. Prasad, MBBS
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The hair follicle was located on the anterior lip of the eyelid margin, but the eyelash was limited by the epidermis and grew beneath it, leading to an inward growth.

Cilium incarnatum internum

Kelin Li, MD, Xuanwei Liang, MD, Rongxin Chen, MD
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The figure shows color fundus photography of bilateral prepapillary vascular loops in a 12-year-old healthy boy who presented for a standard ophthalmologic evaluation.

Bilateral prepapillary vascular loops in a pediatric patient

Stephen A. Zorc, PhD, Matthew Wilneff, MD, James Deutsch, MD
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Fundus examination revealed parafoveal loss of transparency, right angle venules, and telangiectatic vessels, more prominent temporally in the macula of each eye.

Macular telangiectasia type 2 complicated with choroidal neovascularization

Kemal Tekin, MD, FEBO, Cemile Üçgül Atılgan, MD, FEBO
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The choroidal hemorrhages were appositional and abutting the ACIOL.

Anterior suprachoroidal hemorrhage abutting anterior chamber intraocular lens

Fatma F. Shakarchi, MD, MSc, Matthew R. Starr, MD
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Spontaneously dislocated lens

Spontaneously dislocated lens with ring-shaped pigmentation

Parth Dave, FRVS, Nikita J. Sonawane, MS
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