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March 2002
Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:293.
Congratulations to the winner of our November quiz, Michael Sullivan
Mee, OD, FAAO, Northeastern State University Oklahoma College of Optometry,
Tahlequah. The correct answer to our November challenge was tick bite of the
conjunctiva. For a complete discussion of this case, see the Clinicopathologic
Reports, Case Reports, and Small Case Series section in the December ARCHIVES
(Love MC, Platt L, Westfall CT. Lone-star tick bite of the conjunctiva.
Arch Ophthalmol. 2001;119:1854-1855).
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Patient with Amblyomma americanum tick attached
to conjunctiva temporally in the right eye. Inset, Magnified view illustrates
leg (arrow) of tick.
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Be sure to visit the Archives of Ophthalmology
World Wide Web site (http://www.archophthalmol.com) and try your
hand at our Clinical Challenge Interactive Quiz. We invite visitors to make
a diagnosis based on selected information from a case report or other feature
scheduled to be published in the following month's print edition of the ARCHIVES.
The first visitor to e-mail our Web editors with the correct answer will be
recognized in the print journal and on our Web site and will also receive
a free copy of the Clinical Eye Atlas, published
by AMA Press.
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