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Fungal Keratitis, or Misled by a Small Insect?
The pine processionary caterpillar is an insect that has multiple small, thin hairs around its body as a defense mechanism. These hairs have a hazardous effect on ocular structures and cause a broad range of reactions from conjunctivitis to endophthalmitis, referred to as ophthalmia nodosa. The diag...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7204900/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32367702 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.galenos.2019.30670 |
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author | Bayraktutar, Betül Nurefşan Taş, Ayse Yıldız Şahin, Afsun |
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description | The pine processionary caterpillar is an insect that has multiple small, thin hairs around its body as a defense mechanism. These hairs have a hazardous effect on ocular structures and cause a broad range of reactions from conjunctivitis to endophthalmitis, referred to as ophthalmia nodosa. The diagnosis of the disease is based on the patient’s history and the detection of the hairs on ocular structures. In this report, we present a patient with ophthalmia nodosa misdiagnosed as fungal keratitis, and the actual diagnosis was made by in vivo confocal microscopy. We also would like to increase awareness among ophthalmologists about the disease which has a growing distribution area due to climate change. |
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spelling | pubmed-72049002020-05-11 Fungal Keratitis, or Misled by a Small Insect? Bayraktutar, Betül Nurefşan Taş, Ayse Yıldız Şahin, Afsun Turk J Ophthalmol Case Report The pine processionary caterpillar is an insect that has multiple small, thin hairs around its body as a defense mechanism. These hairs have a hazardous effect on ocular structures and cause a broad range of reactions from conjunctivitis to endophthalmitis, referred to as ophthalmia nodosa. The diagnosis of the disease is based on the patient’s history and the detection of the hairs on ocular structures. In this report, we present a patient with ophthalmia nodosa misdiagnosed as fungal keratitis, and the actual diagnosis was made by in vivo confocal microscopy. We also would like to increase awareness among ophthalmologists about the disease which has a growing distribution area due to climate change. Galenos Publishing 2020-04 2020-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7204900/ /pubmed/32367702 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.galenos.2019.30670 Text en © Copyright 2020 by Turkish Ophthalmological Association | Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology, published by Galenos Publishing House. 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 Bayraktutar, Betül Nurefşan Taş, Ayse Yıldız Şahin, Afsun Fungal Keratitis, or Misled by a Small Insect? |
title | Fungal Keratitis, or Misled by a Small Insect? |
title_full | Fungal Keratitis, or Misled by a Small Insect? |
title_fullStr | Fungal Keratitis, or Misled by a Small Insect? |
title_full_unstemmed | Fungal Keratitis, or Misled by a Small Insect? |
title_short | Fungal Keratitis, or Misled by a Small Insect? |
title_sort | fungal keratitis, or misled by a small insect? |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7204900/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32367702 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.galenos.2019.30670 |
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