Le Thi XuanWichit RojekittikhunBenjanee PunpoowongLe Nhu TrangTran Vinh HienUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy VietnamMahidol UniversityCho Ray HospitalCentre for Tropical Diseases VietnamUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy2018-07-242018-07-242002-12-01Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.33, No.3 (2002), 485-489012515622-s2.0-0037812513https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/20296This is the report of the first case of intraocular gnathostomiasis diagnosed in Vietnam. The disease progressed in two months in two distinct phases: in the first phase, the patient had swellings, which appeared at different times and in different locations, on his face - this phase lasted around one month; the second phase was the embedding of the parasite in the vitreous cavity of the right eye and uveitis. Surgical extraction of a living Gnathostoma larva was carried out. Based on morphological, histological criteria, the larva may have been an atypical third-stage of Gnathostoma spinigerum.Mahidol UniversityMedicineArticleSCOPUS