Multiple live subconjunctival dipetalonema: Report of a case

Parasitic infestations of the eye have been reported since centuries, affecting various parts of the eye. Some are subtle, coexisting with vision, while many others damage and destroy, in part or totally, the gift of sight. This report describes a patient with live subconjunctival dipetalonema infes...

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Autores principales: John, Manuel, Mathew, Sely Mary, Sebastian, Vinod, Biswas, Jyotirmoy, Raman, M
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22569390
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.95881
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author John, Manuel
Mathew, Sely Mary
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Biswas, Jyotirmoy
Raman, M
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description Parasitic infestations of the eye have been reported since centuries, affecting various parts of the eye. Some are subtle, coexisting with vision, while many others damage and destroy, in part or totally, the gift of sight. This report describes a patient with live subconjunctival dipetalonema infestation of the right eye, with 22 parasites removed live in one sitting from one eye.
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spelling pubmed-33618242012-06-01 Multiple live subconjunctival dipetalonema: Report of a case John, Manuel Mathew, Sely Mary Sebastian, Vinod Biswas, Jyotirmoy Raman, M Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Parasitic infestations of the eye have been reported since centuries, affecting various parts of the eye. Some are subtle, coexisting with vision, while many others damage and destroy, in part or totally, the gift of sight. This report describes a patient with live subconjunctival dipetalonema infestation of the right eye, with 22 parasites removed live in one sitting from one eye. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3361824/ /pubmed/22569390 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.95881 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Multiple live subconjunctival dipetalonema: Report of a case
title_fullStr Multiple live subconjunctival dipetalonema: Report of a case
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title_short Multiple live subconjunctival dipetalonema: Report of a case
title_sort multiple live subconjunctival dipetalonema: report of a case
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361824/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.95881
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