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Rare form of eye toxocarosis in a 46-year-old patient

https://doi.org/10.34215/1609-1175-2021-3-93-95

Abstract

Rare clinical form of larval toxocarous conjunctivitis with pseudotumor of the orbit and superior rectus muscle of eye lesion is demonstrated. It was caused by migrating toxocar larvaes. The patient was 46 years old. 

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N. A. Shulgina
Pacific State Medical University; Vladivostok Clinical Diagnostic Center
Russian Federation

MD, PhD, assistant, Department of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, 

2 Ostryakova Ave., Vladivostok, 690002



L. V. Doronina
Vladivostok Clinical Diagnostic Center
Russian Federation

MD, 

169/171 Svetlanskaya St., Vladivostok, 690001



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Shulgina N.A., Doronina L.V. Rare form of eye toxocarosis in a 46-year-old patient. Pacific Medical Journal. 2021;(3):93-95. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34215/1609-1175-2021-3-93-95

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