Ophthalmomyiasis Externa: A Report of Three Cases

Three patients were admitted to our clinic with symptoms of conjunctivitis. On ocular examination, moving larvae were seen in the conjunctival sac. All of the larvae were immobilized by topical cyclopentolate and removed mechanically under topical anesthesia. The patients healed without any complica...

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Autores principales: Sundu, Cem, Dinç, Erdem, Kurtuluş, Umut Can, Yıldırım, Özlem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5082245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27800236
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.70456
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author Sundu, Cem
Dinç, Erdem
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description Three patients were admitted to our clinic with symptoms of conjunctivitis. On ocular examination, moving larvae were seen in the conjunctival sac. All of the larvae were immobilized by topical cyclopentolate and removed mechanically under topical anesthesia. The patients healed without any complications after the treatment. Physicians should consider ophthalmomyiasis externa in patients presenting with similar symptoms, especially in areas with high numbers of livestock. Otherwise the diagnosis can be missed.
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spelling pubmed-50822452016-10-31 Ophthalmomyiasis Externa: A Report of Three Cases Sundu, Cem Dinç, Erdem Kurtuluş, Umut Can Yıldırım, Özlem Turk J Ophthalmol Case Report Three patients were admitted to our clinic with symptoms of conjunctivitis. On ocular examination, moving larvae were seen in the conjunctival sac. All of the larvae were immobilized by topical cyclopentolate and removed mechanically under topical anesthesia. The patients healed without any complications after the treatment. Physicians should consider ophthalmomyiasis externa in patients presenting with similar symptoms, especially in areas with high numbers of livestock. Otherwise the diagnosis can be missed. Galenos Publishing 2015-10 2015-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5082245/ /pubmed/27800236 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.70456 Text en ©Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology, Published by Galenos Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ophthalmomyiasis Externa: A Report of Three Cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5082245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27800236
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.70456
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