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| CASE REPORT |
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| Year : 1984 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 115 |
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Molluscum contagiosum
TRD Sinha1, OP Choudhary1, PVP Sinha2
1 Department of Ophthalmology, Rajendra Medical College, Ranchi, India
2 Department of Pathology, Rajendra Medical College, Ranchi, India
Correspondence Address:
TRD Sinha
Department of Ophthalmology, Rajendra Medical College, Ranchi, Bihar
India
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PMID: 6526463 
How to cite this article:
Sinha T, Choudhary O P, Sinha P. Molluscum contagiosum. Indian J Ophthalmol 1984;32:115 |
Molluscum contagiosum is a mildly contagious disease characterised by the appearance of small, globular, umbilicated epithelial tumours. It is caused by an oncogenic virus. Nover was the first to demonstrate the virus with electron microscope. It occurs in conjunctiva only occasionally, usually in palpebral conjunctiva of lower lid[1].
| Case report | |  |
A married lady C.D. aged 35 years, with small swelling near right upper lid margin came on cosmetic grounds. There was little irritation and occasional foreign body sensation. She noticed very small swelling first in January of the same year, which gradually increased to present size.
On examination a small white, umbilicated swelling approximately 2 mm X 11h mm in size was noticed just lateral and anterior to punctum, upper lid. Conjunctiva at the top of the swelling was adherent and umbilicated. There was no frank conjunctiva) congestion or discharge. Cornea was normal. Haematological investigations were non contributory. Under local anaesthesia excision of the mass was done. On removal it looked like Sago grain, white in colour, single in number. On histopathological examination it was found to be Molluscum contagiosum.
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Molluscum contagiosum in conjunctiva is not very common. Again it is more common in lower lid[1] but the present report is from upper lid. Unlike the reported severe conjunctivitis and occasional keratitis the present case is almost silent except for little irritation and occasional foreign body sensation.
Many a times it poses diagnostic problem and is to be kept in mind, in differential diagnosis of lid margin small up. Histopathology provide the final answer.
| Summary | | |
A case of molluscum contagiosum of the conjunctiva in a lady aged 35 years with unusual silent presentation.
| References | | |
| 1. | Duke-Elder,S., 1965, Systems of Opthalmology Vol. VIII Part-I p. 376-379.  |
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