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Ophthalmia nodosa due to caterpillar hairs.
CASES of ophthalmia nodosa attributable to caterpillar hairs have been recorded in the literature from time to time during the last hundred years. The first description was published by Schon (1861) and further cases have been described by others including Pagenstecher (1883), Wagenmann (1890), Elschnig (1895). The name ophthalmia nodosa was given by Saemisch (1904). Only two British authors ha...
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To the Editorial Committee of the BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY. SIRs-Although ophthalmia nodosa has been known for more than a century (Sch6n, 1861), the mechanism of the migration of caterpillar hairs has remained controversial. There is no need to enumerate the explanations proposed, but one point should be noted here which has rarely been mentioned in the recent literature, not even in t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1955
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.39.5.301