[Dirofilariasis in humans. Report of a case with localization in the cheek (author's transl)].

Cutaneous dirofilariasis usually affects animals (dogs and cats) but can occur in human-beings. Occasionally, this cosmopolitan disease is seen in France. Our case-report is the sixteenth registered in France. The patient, a forty-two-year-old man, was infected in Corsica. He presented with a tumor of the right cheek from which a pregnant adult Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens was extracted.