Surgical management of conjunctival loiasis.
An increase in world travel has resulted in the appearance of tropical and third-world diseases in nonendemic locations. We report a case from New York City of an adult African eye worm, Loa loa, and the technique of its paralysis and removal from the epibulbar conjunctiva.
Nam
Julie N
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Department of Ophthalmology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York 10016, USA.
Reddy
Shantan
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Charles
Norman C
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D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D003229:Conjunctival Diseases / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery*; D015822:Eye Infections, Parasitic / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008117:Loa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008118:Loiasis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D014195:Travel