Freshwater sponge spicules: a new agent of ocular pathology
| Autor: | Pedro P.A. Manso, Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro, Janice Coelho, Henrique Leonel Lenzi, Leandro Moulin Alencar, Marcelo Pelajo-Machado, Marcelo Pelajo Machado, Carlos Franklin Fonseca, Twiggy C. A. Batista, Fernando Oréfice |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Microbiology (medical) Pars plana medicine.medical_specialty Drulia uruguayensis lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine Adolescent Fundus Oculi lcsh:RC955-962 Ocular Pathology medicine.medical_treatment Visual Acuity lcsh:QR1-502 Vision Low Vitrectomy Cataract Extraction Biology Cataract Drulia ctenosclera lcsh:Microbiology Sponge spicule Rivers medicine Animals Humans Child Lenses Intraocular ocular pathology Histopathological analysis sponge spicules Anatomy medicine.disease foreign body eye Porifera Surgery Left eye medicine.anatomical_structure Female Adherent leukoma Foreign body |
| Zdroj: | Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz., Vol 101, Iss 8, Pp 899-903 (2006) Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Volume: 101, Issue: 8, Pages: 899-903, Published: DEC 2006 |
| ISSN: | 1678-8060 0074-0276 |
| Popis: | In a recent outbreak of human ocular injuries that occurred in the town of Araguatins, at the right bank of Araguaia river, state of Tocantins, Brazil, along the low water period of 2005, two patients (8 and 12-year-old boys) presented inferior adherent leukoma in the left eye (OS), and peripherical uveites, with snowbanking in the inferior pars plana. The third one (13-year-old girl) showed posterior uveites in OS, also with snowbanking. Histopathological analysis of lensectomy material from the three patients and vitrectomy from the last one revealed several silicious spicules (gemmoscleres) of the freshwater sponges Drulia uruguayensis and D. ctenosclera. This work brings material evidences, for the first time in the literature, that freshwater sponge spicules may be a surprising new etiological agent of ocular pathology. |
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