1.External Ophthalmomyiasis Caused by Oestrus ovis: A Rare Case Report from India.
Anita PANDEY ; Molly MADAN ; Ashish K ASTHANA ; Anupam DAS ; Sandeep KUMAR ; Kirti JAIN
The Korean Journal of Parasitology 2009;47(1):57-59
Myiasis of different organs has been reported off and on from various regions in the world. We report a human case of external ophthalmomyiasis caused by the larvae of a sheep nasal botfly, Oestrus ovis, for the first time from Meerut city in Western Uttar Pradesh, India. A 25-year-old farmer presented with severe symptoms of conjunctivitis. The larvae, 3 in number, were observed in the bulbar conjunctiva, and following removal the symptoms of eye inflammation improved within a few hours.
Adult
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Animals
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Conjunctiva/parasitology
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Conjunctivitis/*parasitology
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*Diptera/growth & development
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Eye Infections, Parasitic/*parasitology
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Humans
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India
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Larva
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Myiasis/*parasitology
2.Comparison of Modified Rose Method of Thyroid Palpation versus other Methods for the Detection of Retrosternal and Nodular Goitre
Santosha Kumar Pattashanee ; Gopal Puri ; Kamal Kataria ; Piyush Ranjan ; Anita Dhar ; Anurag Srivastava ; Surabhi Vyas ; Yashdeep Gupta ; RM Pandey
Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies 2022;37(1):4-13
Objectives:
This is a diagnostic test research study to evaluate the various existing methods of thyroid examination and their comparison with the novel modified Rose method. It also aims to measure inter-examiner variation in clinical findings based on the level of education and training, as compared to ultrasonography.
Methodology:
This cross-sectional study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital with 83 patients presenting to surgery OPD with neck swelling. Each patient was examined by one trained Junior Resident and a Surgery Consultant with all the four methods and with ultrasonography. Data was analysed by Stata-14, agreement between the two categorical variables was assessed by Kappa. In case of continuous variable agreement was assessed by Intra class correlation and Bland-Altman plot.
Results:
Modified Rose method by the consultant has the highest sensitivity (98%) and diagnostic odds (210) as compared to others but its specificity ranges from 46.7-91.1% to diagnose retro-sternal extension of a goiter. It has 93.98% agreement for identification of nodules. It has a high specificity (Consultant - 100%, Resident - 95.5%) with relatively lower sensitivity (Consultant - 94%, Resident - 86.8%) to diagnose solitary thyroid nodule (STN) but the sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing a multinodular goitre (MNG) was high. However, the highest sensitivity to diagnose STN was highest with Crile’s method, but specificity was low. Lahey’s method was a better clinical method to palpate lymph nodes compared to the other three.
Conclusion
Examination in modified Rose’s position is a better method of clinical examination of thyroid especially in patients with occult substernal extension. Lahey’s method is a better method to examine cervical lymph nodes.