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Four Cases of Pediatric Photokeratitis Present to the Emergency Department After Watching the Same Theater Show
We report four consecutive cases of photokeratitis that presented to the emergency department, interestingly after having watched the same theatre performance in the same school. The patients’ ages (3 male, 1 female) ranged from 9 to 13 years. All patients presented with similar complaints consistin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5082247/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27800238 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.67625 |
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author | Mangan, Mehmet Serhat Arıcı, Ceyhun Atalay, Eray Tanyıldız, Burak Oruçoğlu, Faik |
author_facet | Mangan, Mehmet Serhat Arıcı, Ceyhun Atalay, Eray Tanyıldız, Burak Oruçoğlu, Faik |
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description | We report four consecutive cases of photokeratitis that presented to the emergency department, interestingly after having watched the same theatre performance in the same school. The patients’ ages (3 male, 1 female) ranged from 9 to 13 years. All patients presented with similar complaints consisting of pain, tearing, foreign body sensation, photophobia and blurred vision in both eyes. Patients reported watching a theatre performance in the same school approximately 4 hours before symptom onset. On slit-lamp examination, conjunctival injection and corneal punctate epithelial erosions were observed in the interpalpebral zone in both eyes. On fundus examination, no pathology was observed in the vitreous, posterior pole or peripheral retina. All cases were treated with topical antibiotics and lubricant eye drops. Corneas were clear two days later in the control visit. In this case report, exposure to ultraviolet light from high-power lamps used in the theatre was proposed as a possible cause of corneal epithelial cell damage and subsequent photokeratitis. |
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spelling | pubmed-50822472016-10-31 Four Cases of Pediatric Photokeratitis Present to the Emergency Department After Watching the Same Theater Show Mangan, Mehmet Serhat Arıcı, Ceyhun Atalay, Eray Tanyıldız, Burak Oruçoğlu, Faik Turk J Ophthalmol Case Report We report four consecutive cases of photokeratitis that presented to the emergency department, interestingly after having watched the same theatre performance in the same school. The patients’ ages (3 male, 1 female) ranged from 9 to 13 years. All patients presented with similar complaints consisting of pain, tearing, foreign body sensation, photophobia and blurred vision in both eyes. Patients reported watching a theatre performance in the same school approximately 4 hours before symptom onset. On slit-lamp examination, conjunctival injection and corneal punctate epithelial erosions were observed in the interpalpebral zone in both eyes. On fundus examination, no pathology was observed in the vitreous, posterior pole or peripheral retina. All cases were treated with topical antibiotics and lubricant eye drops. Corneas were clear two days later in the control visit. In this case report, exposure to ultraviolet light from high-power lamps used in the theatre was proposed as a possible cause of corneal epithelial cell damage and subsequent photokeratitis. Galenos Publishing 2015-10 2015-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5082247/ /pubmed/27800238 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.67625 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Mangan, Mehmet Serhat Arıcı, Ceyhun Atalay, Eray Tanyıldız, Burak Oruçoğlu, Faik Four Cases of Pediatric Photokeratitis Present to the Emergency Department After Watching the Same Theater Show |
title | Four Cases of Pediatric Photokeratitis Present to the Emergency Department After Watching the Same Theater Show |
title_full | Four Cases of Pediatric Photokeratitis Present to the Emergency Department After Watching the Same Theater Show |
title_fullStr | Four Cases of Pediatric Photokeratitis Present to the Emergency Department After Watching the Same Theater Show |
title_full_unstemmed | Four Cases of Pediatric Photokeratitis Present to the Emergency Department After Watching the Same Theater Show |
title_short | Four Cases of Pediatric Photokeratitis Present to the Emergency Department After Watching the Same Theater Show |
title_sort | four cases of pediatric photokeratitis present to the emergency department after watching the same theater show |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5082247/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27800238 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.67625 |
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