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Case report: a diagnostically challenging conjunctival mass caused by the Epstein-Barr virus

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Title
Case report: a diagnostically challenging conjunctival mass caused by the Epstein-Barr virus
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BMC Ophthalmology, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12886-015-0111-2
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Jordan V. Chervenkoff, Saul N. Rajak, Paul G. Brittain, David A. Wright, Victoria J M Barrett

Abstract

We present a paediatric case of infectious mononucleosis in a 13-year old, manifesting with follicular conjunctivitis and a conjunctival mass in one eye with no evidence of leucocytosis on the blood count. The diagnosis was confirmed following surgical excision and biopsy. The case represented a diagnostic challenge due to its atypism and given the steady increase in the prevalence of EBV-related ocular diseases in the last years, this report can serve as an example to prompt earlier serological tests to identify the aetiology in similar cases. This is important because EBV can be treated with acyclovir early in the active viral phase.

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Unknown 8 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 38%
Professor 1 13%
Researcher 1 13%
Other 1 13%
Unknown 2 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 63%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 13%
Unknown 2 25%
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