title: Dirofilariasis presenting as a breast lump.
abstract: Dirofilariasis is now recognized as a zoonosis. Infection of humans occurs when a mosquito that has obtained larvae-containing blood from an infected animal transmits the larvae, after they have developed to the infective stage, to a human. Dirofilarial infections in humans have been reported from around the world. In this paper a case is reported in which subcutaneous dirofilariasis in a human presented as a lump in the breast. The epidemiologic and pathogenetic features of this disease are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004184:Dirofilariasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans