A Case Report of Haman Thelaziasis.

Lee, Pil Wha; Kim, Chung Won; Cho, Byung Chae

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1987;28(2):495-498.
Published online February 1, 1987.

A Case Report of Haman Thelaziasis.

Pil Wha Lee, Chung Won Kim, Byung Chae Cho

Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

동양안층의 인체감염 1 예

이필화(Pil Wha Lee),김정원(Chung Won Kim),조병채(Byung Chae Cho)

Abstract

The authors present a case of human Thelaziasis in Korea with the review of literatures. The patient was 58-year-old Korean housewife who visited with the complaints of foreign body sensation and lacrimation in her right eye. A day prior to the presentation, she extracted 2 living worms from the same eye by herself. But, after the examination of the eye, 3 living worms were removed under topical anesthesia with 0.5% Pontocaine. The worms were slender and creamy white Thelazia worms. Two of those were 13.3mm in length, 0.5mm in diameter and the other was 18.0mm in length, 0.6mm in diameter.