Medisur (Dec 2008)

Ocular toxocariasis. A case presentation

  • Mariela Julia Curbelo Gómez,
  • Bárbara Teresa Ríos Araujo,
  • María Adela LLull Tombo

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 3
pp. 303 – 305

Abstract

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A clinical case on ocular toxocariasis is presented. The clinical manifestations were pain and red eye in a four year-old child. A prior acute uveitis in the LE was found in the physical ocular exam. Vitrea band that was out of the superior edge of papila and a marginal granuloma were found in the eyes fundus. The patient was admitted and treated with oral corticoids and oral antihelmintics

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