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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author Gupta, Viney
Sankaran, Preeti
Mohanraj,
Samantaray, Jyotish Chandra
Menon, Vimla
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description 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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spelling pubmed-40616832014-06-19 Bilateral intraocular dirofilariasis Gupta, Viney Sankaran, Preeti Mohanraj, Samantaray, Jyotish Chandra Menon, Vimla Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4061683/ /pubmed/24008780 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.116252 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_short Bilateral intraocular dirofilariasis
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url 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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