Monday, November 18, 2013

Case of the Week 282

The following is a corneal biopsy from a woman with a red and painful eye.

H&E, 100x magnification


H&E, 1000x magnification


















Identification?
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 11:16 AM

    This is amazing! Looks like Acanthamoeba but have never seen such a florid case so maybe immunosuppressed?

    In SF it is usually teenage contact wearers who have never boiled their cases and we're lucky to find 1 smudgy parasite on bx.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 2:14 PM

    Acanthamoeba...nice pics!

    Lee

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  3. AnonymousNovember 18, 2013 at 6:11 PM

    What a nasty case of Acanthamoeba. In the past cases I could only find a few using calcofluor white stain.

    Florida Fan

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  4. AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 10:58 AM

    Acanthamoeba... Im afraid the woman will lost her sight permanently

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  5. AnonymousNovember 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM

    Acanthamoeba!NIce pics!

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