Abstract
Eyeball tattooing or scleral tattooing is a new form of body modification. A 27-year-old Indian male presented with defective vision in the left eye a day after self-attempted eyeball tattooing. The inadvertent penetration and ink injection led to the staining of the cornea, suspension of ink in the aqueous. The lens showed capsular staining and subsequent progression to the cataract. The posterior segment showed staining of vitreous with the red dye, retinal thickening at the macula. The optical coherence tomography showed inner retinal hyperreflectivity with retinal thickening. As these “Do it yourself” maneuvers are becoming trends influenced by social media, we report a case of self-attempted eyeball tattooing and its complications.
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