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Unilateral Follicular Conjunctivitis With Retained Hair and Pseudomonal Infection
Arch Ophthalmol. 2001;119:901-903.
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INTRODUCTION
A healthy 40-year-old woman developed redness and yellowish discharge in the right eye associated with a follicular conjunctivitis with marked preauricular adenopathy. This clinical picture was consistent with Parinaud oculoglandular syndrome. A subconjunctival mass was present in the superotemporal fornix. Conjunctival culture yielded Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The mass was removed surgically, and treatment with topical and systemic ciprofloxacin hydrochloride was instituted. Light microscopy demonstrated acute and chronic inflammatory cells surrounding a collection of hair shafts. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a case of Parinaud oculoglandular syndrome caused by a hair foreign body with an associated pseudomonal conjunctivitis.
Unilateral follicular conjunctivitis is most commonly associated with primary herpetic keratoconjunctivitis, chlamydial infection, and various causes of Parinaud oculoglandular syndrome.1 A case of follicular conjunctivitis secondary to a retained hair has not, to our knowledge, been reported previously. We treated a patient with follicular conjunctivitis secondary to a retained . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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