Vucaj Cirilovic Viktorija, Dobrosavljev Mirjana, Niciforovic Dijana, Donat Daniela, Bogdanovic-Stojanovic Dragana, Jukovic Mirela
Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Centre for Radiology, Novi Sad, Serbia.
J Clin Ultrasound. 2014 Sep;42(7):433-5. doi: 10.1002/jcu.22139. Epub 2014 Feb 25.
Human dirofilarial infections characteristically manifest as pulmonary "coin" lesions or as subcutaneous nodules. A case of subcutaneous Dirofilaria infection of the breast involving a 25-year-old woman with a painful breast lump is presented. The patient had not traveled anywhere and did not have any animals, but provided a history of being bitten by mosquitoes. The suspicion of a parasitic infection was raised by the presence of rod-like structures within a hypoechoic nodule on sonography; movement within the nodule was detected during the examination. Histopathological examination revealed viable, adult female Dirofilaria repens, a nematode that is commonly found in dogs, cats, and wild mammals throughout parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 42:433-435, 2014.
