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River Water Granuloma

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Abstract

Ocular infection secondary to trematodes are considered to be rare. River water granulom a is a graulomatous anterior uveitis caused by trematode in children with a preceding history of taking bath in village ponds.

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  1. Uveitis Services, Aravind Eye Hospital & PG. Institute of Ophthalmology, 1, Anna Nagar, 625 020, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

    Rajesh Vedhanayaki & S. R. Rathinam

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  1. Rajesh Vedhanayaki
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Correspondence to Rajesh Vedhanayaki .

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  1. Advanced Eye Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Vishali Gupta

  2. Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University, Paris, France

    Phuc LeHoang

  4. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Carl P Herbort Jr.

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Vedhanayaki, R., Rathinam, S.R. (2016). River Water Granuloma. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Herbort Jr., C. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2506-5_49-1

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