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Fig. 1: A 4-year-old female with no previous medical history presented to the emergency department for a chief concern of a foreign body in her left eye with associated redness.
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Kun Hsi Chu
Department of Ophthalmology, Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Alexander Kwok, Adriana Paula Grigorian & Abdelrahman M. Elhusseiny
Department of Emergency Medicine, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, AR, USA
John B. Block
Department of Pathology, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, AR, USA
Eric Rosenbaum
Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Abdelrahman M. Elhusseiny
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Kun Hsi Chu: Writing—review and editing, writing—original draft. Alexander Kwok: validation, supervision, data curation. Paula Grigorian: writing—review and editing, validation. John Block: writing—review and editing, validation. Eric Rosenbaum: writing—review and editing, validation. Abdelrahman M. Elhusseiny: writing—review and editing, writing—original draft, validation, supervision, conceptualization.
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Chu, K.H., Kwok, A., Grigorian, A.P. et al. Conjunctival tick bite. Eye (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-025-03770-w
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