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Thelazia callipaeda or the oriental eye worm infects a wide variety of hosts including dogs, cats, foxes, rabbits, and humans through the Drosophila flies. We report here a case of a 42-year-old female who presented with pain, redness, and cystic swelling in the right lacrimal sac area for 8 months. Ocular examination was within normal limits. Excision biopsy of the cyst revealed a live worm. In humans, the worm is usually found in the conjunctival sac, lacrimal canaliculi, or the lacrimal sac leading to a disease which can be subclinical or symptomatic. Thus, we report a rare presentation of thelaziasis, that is, periocular involvement. This case presentation is first of its kind in the Indian literature.
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Infecções Oculares Parasitárias/diagnóstico , Ducto Nasolacrimal/parasitologia , Infecções por Spirurida/diagnóstico , Thelazioidea/isolamento & purificação , Adulto , Animais , Infecções Oculares Parasitárias/parasitologia , Feminino , Humanos , Ducto Nasolacrimal/diagnóstico por imagem , Infecções por Spirurida/parasitologia , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios XRESUMO
Blunt trauma is the most common cause of posterior dislocation of the crystalline lens. We describe a rare case of subretinal migration of crystalline lens through the giant retinal tear following blunt ocular trauma. This incidental finding of subretinal dislocation of lens following blunt ocular trauma was confirmed on histopathological examination of the enucleated eye. This complication has not been described by histopathological examination in literature so far.
