%0 Journal Article
%T Ocular rhinosporidiosis with staphyloma formation: a case with unusual features
%A Tissa Senaratne
%A Kapila Edussuriya
%A Mangala Dhanapala
%A et al
%J Eye and Brain
%D 2011
%I 
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/EB.S13342
%X ular rhinosporidiosis with staphyloma formation: a case with unusual features Case report (2352) Total Article Views Authors: Tissa Senaratne, Kapila Edussuriya, Mangala Dhanapala, et al Published Date January 2011 Volume 2011:3 Pages 1 - 4 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/EB.S13342 Tissa Senaratne1, Kapila Edussuriya1, Mangala Dhanapala1, Ashoka Bandara1, Sarath Arseculeratne2 1Eye Centre, General Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka; 2Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Abstract: A case of ocular (bulbar) rhinosporidiosis is described; its unusual features included a) the rapid development of a primary, rhinosporidial lesion with a scleral staphyloma, close to but noncontiguous with the rhinosporidial lesion, 3 weeks after exposure to a lacustrine reservoir, the putative source of the pathogen Rhinosporidium seeberi; b) ocular coherence tomography which revealed no retinal abnormalities unlike in previous cases reported from Sri Lanka; c) atypical histopathology that resulted in an initial mis-diagnosis of chronic inflammation with mucus cysts and a missed diagnosis of rhinosporidiosis; the rhinosporidial etiology was confirmed on replicate histopathological sections of the ocular mass. The pitfalls of histopathological diagnosis of rhinosporidiosis are pointed out.
%K rhinosporidiosis
%K staphyloma
%K missed diagnosis
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