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LAWRENCE ROSE, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1966;75(1):13-15.

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There are few reports of intraocular filariasis in the literature. In two of four cases reported from India and Ceylon, the adult worm (Wuchereria bancrofti) was successfully recovered. Wright¹ and Nayar and Pillai² found a paramacular chorioretinal defect from which the worm had emerged. Nayar's case was followed over a four-week period as the worm changed from a larval to a juvenile form during its migration from the posterior vitreous to the anterior chamber. In two other cases, reported respectively by Chatterji³ and Fernando,⁴ adolescent worms were found in the anterior chamber, but the point of intraocular penetration was not discovered.

McMullen⁵ reported an anterior chamber larval form, and Sun⁶ recovered numerous microfilariae of W bancrofti from a case of acute iritis after anterior chamber paracentesis. In this latter case the microfilariae were seen only on biomicroscopic examination.

Mishra⁷ reported finding an intravitreal . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
San Francisco

From the George Williams Hooper Foundation and the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco Medical Center.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 11, 1965.

Reprint requests to the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco 94122.

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