Calcifications of the Breast in Onchocerca Infection

Arribas, José María; Prieto, Amador; Díaz, Ana Carolina; Calleja, Maite; Nava, E.

doi:10.1111/j.1075-122x.2005.00165.x

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“…Onchocercomata rarely present in the breast. 1,2 Interestingly, this is the first report in a breast cancer patient available in PubMed illustrating the importance of epidemiology.…”

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Onchocerca volvulus Mimicking Metastatic Breast Carcinoma

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The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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A 42-year-old Cameroonian woman with history of invasive ductal mammary carcinoma status post right mastectomy presented with a 1-cm right peri-scapular lesion. Position emission tomography scan showed a corresponding subcutaneous mildly fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-avid (standardized uptake value = 3.8) lesion, suspicious for metastasis (Figure 1A). Histologic examination of a skin biopsy revealed helminths consistent with Onchocerca volvulus FIGURE 1. (A) FDG-avid lesion in the right periscapular region corresponding to a biopsied hypermetabolic soft tissue nodule. (B) Hematoxylin & Eosin-stained sections of the nodule showing Onchocerca volvulus (200× left and 40× right).

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“…Onchocercomata rarely present in the breast. 1,2 Interestingly, this is the first report in a breast cancer patient available in PubMed illustrating the importance of epidemiology.…”

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Onchocerca volvulus Mimicking Metastatic Breast Carcinoma

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2020

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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“…Han sido publicados dos trabajos con calcificaciones en mamas, observadas en mamografías, un trabajo con un caso, que fue considerado como oncocercosis (Arribas et al 2005), el otro con 4 casos, que fueron considerados como filariosis linfáticas (Bastarrika et al 2001). No creemos que correspondan a estas filariosis, si no a filariosis por L. loa calcificadas, o sea, En cuanto a publicaciones con un solo caso de loaosis publicados fuera de España y de zonas endémicas de loaosis, hay trece trabajos que comentamos a continuación.…”

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