Bilateral intraocular dirofilariasis

Ocular dirofilariasis mostly presents as a subconjunctival or eyelid lesion.[1] Intraocular dirofilarial infestation is rare.[23] We report a case of a young woman who was accidentally detected to have a live motile worm in the anterior segment in one eye and a cystic lesion on the optic disc in the...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Viney, Sankaran, Preeti, Mohanraj, Samantaray, Jyotish Chandra, Menon, Vimla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24008780
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.116252
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Sumario:Ocular dirofilariasis mostly presents as a subconjunctival or eyelid lesion.[1] Intraocular dirofilarial infestation is rare.[23] We report a case of a young woman who was accidentally detected to have a live motile worm in the anterior segment in one eye and a cystic lesion on the optic disc in the other eye. To our knowledge, bilateral intraocular dirofilariasis has never been reported.

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