1. Toxocariasis: a diagnostic dilemma.
- Author
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Wolach B, Sinnreich Z, Uziel Y, Gotesman G, and Pomerantz A
- Subjects
- Child, Preschool, Diagnosis, Differential, Eye Enucleation, Eye Infections, Parasitic surgery, Eye Neoplasms diagnosis, Female, Humans, Larva Migrans diagnosis, Lymphoma diagnosis, Retinoblastoma diagnosis, Eye Infections, Parasitic diagnosis, Larva Migrans, Visceral diagnosis
- Abstract
Visceral larva migrans (VLM) is endemic in Israel; therefore, a positive serology is not unusual in our general population. The clinical manifestations of the disease may mimic other clinical conditions. Sometimes life-threatening disorders have to be considered in the differential diagnosis. This diagnostic dilemma can be solved occasionally only by histological examination. We report two patients, one with a lymphoma-like presentation and the other with an intraocular tumoral mass suggesting retinoblastoma, and discuss the diagnostic difficulties.
- Published
- 1995