Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 159097, 2 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/159097
Case Report
Pole to Pole Intraocular Transit of Tarantula Hairs—An Intriguing Cause of Red Eye
Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Road, London EC1V 2PD, UK
Received 23 August 2009; Accepted 16 October 2009
Academic Editor: Robert J. Noecker
Copyright © 2009 Hiten G. Sheth et al. This is an open access article distributed under the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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