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Seidel Test
Aka: Seidel Test, Seidel Sign
- Indications
- Eye Trauma with suspected Globe Rupture
- Contraindications
- Obvious Globe Rupture
- Full thickness eye Laceration
- Requirements
- Slit lamp with cobalt blue light source
- Technique
- Prepare Slit Lamp
- Apply Topical Eye Anesthetic
- Gently apply moistened Fluorescein dye strip to Eye Injury site
- Visualize injury site under cobalt blue light source
- Interpretation: Findings suggestive of Globe Rupture (Positive Seidel Test)
- Fluorescein dye diluted by aqueous fluid
- Darker, diluted Fluorescein dye streams from Globe Rupture site
- Bright green concentrated dye surrounds leak site (above and to side)
- Precautions
- Do not apply pressure to eye during test (risk of eye tissue extrusion)
- References
- Cain (1981) Arch Ophthalmol 99:2013
