Managing multiple caterpillar hair in the eye

Ophthalmia nodosa with vitreoretinal involvement is rare and may cause permanent loss of eye due to persistent inflammation of the eye. A young female patient having multiple caterpillar hair in the eye including cornea, anterior chamber, sclera, and pars plana presented with recurrent vitritis and...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Manisha, Acharya, Manisha C, Majumdar, Shahana, Paul, Lagan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5426133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28440257
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_985_15
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author Agarwal, Manisha
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description Ophthalmia nodosa with vitreoretinal involvement is rare and may cause permanent loss of eye due to persistent inflammation of the eye. A young female patient having multiple caterpillar hair in the eye including cornea, anterior chamber, sclera, and pars plana presented with recurrent vitritis and pars planitis. Ultrasound biomicroscopy played a vital role and helped in localizing the hair embedded in the pars plana region which were managed by pars plana vitrectomy leading to complete recovery.
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spelling pubmed-54261332017-05-31 Managing multiple caterpillar hair in the eye Agarwal, Manisha Acharya, Manisha C Majumdar, Shahana Paul, Lagan Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communication Ophthalmia nodosa with vitreoretinal involvement is rare and may cause permanent loss of eye due to persistent inflammation of the eye. A young female patient having multiple caterpillar hair in the eye including cornea, anterior chamber, sclera, and pars plana presented with recurrent vitritis and pars planitis. Ultrasound biomicroscopy played a vital role and helped in localizing the hair embedded in the pars plana region which were managed by pars plana vitrectomy leading to complete recovery. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5426133/ /pubmed/28440257 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_985_15 Text en Copyright: © 2017 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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