title: A portable monocular indirect ophthalmoscopic technique.
abstract: A simple, inexpensive, and portable method of monocular indirect ophthalmoscopy is used as the physician's examining eye is aligned in the axis of the patient's eye, a flashlight is held against the examiner's malar area beneath the dominant eye, and the beam of the flashlight is directed to the patient's eye. A plus 30 lens is then interposed 1 or 2 inches in front of the patient's eye and the fundus viewed.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019721:Ophthalmoscopes; D009887:Ophthalmoscopy / Q000379:methods; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis