UNUSUAL CASES OF CONJUNCTIVITIS

Unusual type of epidemic conjunctivitis in Ghana.

An unusual type of epidemic conjunctivitis swept through Ghana between June and October, I969. The clinical features of all the cases were uniform and exhibited marked deviations from the epidemic conjunctivitis usually seen in other parts of the world. The rapid spread and course of the condition were also remarkable, and our failure to detect any of the usual causative organisms encouraged us...

Unusual presentation of gestational trophoblastic neoplasm: Report of two cases

  Abstract: Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasm (GTN) is among rare human tumors which can be observed with widespread metastasis. Two young patients with emergent neurologic symptoms with no gynecological problems are presented in this report. GTN was later diagnosed in both cases with brain metastasis. The first case: A 22 years old patient, admitted to the infectious disease ward, with probab...

Unusual cases of Theileria annulata infection in calves

Primary meningococcal conjunctivitis: an unusual case of transmission by saliva.

A 49-year-old diabetic man presented with a 2-day history of a painful right eye associated with a purulent discharge. Prior to becoming symptomatic, he reported that someone spat at him, resulting in direct contact between the saliva and his affected eye. Gram stain revealed numerous leucocytes with Gram-negative diplococci, and culture yielded Neisseria meningitidis (serogroup C). There was n...

Clinical and histopathological aspects in two cases of ligneous conjunctivitis.

Ligneous conjunctivitis represents a very rare form of chronic membranous conjunctivitis, with unknown etiology; less than 200 cases have been reported in the literature, most of them in infants and children. After 40 years, this condition appears in exceptional circumstances. We present, in this study, two patients (of 55 and 64 years old) with very severe forms of ligneous conjunctivitis, cer...