Intramuscular Dirofilariasis Mimicking an Orbital Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer

We present the unusual case of a 74 year-old female with a history of breast cancer who presented with acute painless orbital swelling and vertical diplopia. MRI revealed a focal enhancing mass within the superior rectus muscle. As the concern for metastatic disease was high, surgical biopsy was per...

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Autores principales: Henderson, Brett M., Hunt, Christopher H., Eckel, Laurence J., Schwartz, Kara M., Diehn, Felix E., Pritt, Bobbi S., Schembri Wismayer, David J., Garrity, James A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3449108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23008795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/103154
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author Henderson, Brett M.
Hunt, Christopher H.
Eckel, Laurence J.
Schwartz, Kara M.
Diehn, Felix E.
Pritt, Bobbi S.
Schembri Wismayer, David J.
Garrity, James A.
author_facet Henderson, Brett M.
Hunt, Christopher H.
Eckel, Laurence J.
Schwartz, Kara M.
Diehn, Felix E.
Pritt, Bobbi S.
Schembri Wismayer, David J.
Garrity, James A.
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description We present the unusual case of a 74 year-old female with a history of breast cancer who presented with acute painless orbital swelling and vertical diplopia. MRI revealed a focal enhancing mass within the superior rectus muscle. As the concern for metastatic disease was high, surgical biopsy was performed and revealed an unusual mimicker of metastatic disease, the parasitic infection dirofilariasis.
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spelling pubmed-34491082012-09-24 Intramuscular Dirofilariasis Mimicking an Orbital Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer Henderson, Brett M. Hunt, Christopher H. Eckel, Laurence J. Schwartz, Kara M. Diehn, Felix E. Pritt, Bobbi S. Schembri Wismayer, David J. Garrity, James A. Case Rep Radiol Case Report We present the unusual case of a 74 year-old female with a history of breast cancer who presented with acute painless orbital swelling and vertical diplopia. MRI revealed a focal enhancing mass within the superior rectus muscle. As the concern for metastatic disease was high, surgical biopsy was performed and revealed an unusual mimicker of metastatic disease, the parasitic infection dirofilariasis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3449108/ /pubmed/23008795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/103154 Text en Copyright © 2012 Brett M. Henderson et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Henderson, Brett M.
Hunt, Christopher H.
Eckel, Laurence J.
Schwartz, Kara M.
Diehn, Felix E.
Pritt, Bobbi S.
Schembri Wismayer, David J.
Garrity, James A.
Intramuscular Dirofilariasis Mimicking an Orbital Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title Intramuscular Dirofilariasis Mimicking an Orbital Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title_full Intramuscular Dirofilariasis Mimicking an Orbital Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title_fullStr Intramuscular Dirofilariasis Mimicking an Orbital Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Intramuscular Dirofilariasis Mimicking an Orbital Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title_short Intramuscular Dirofilariasis Mimicking an Orbital Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title_sort intramuscular dirofilariasis mimicking an orbital metastasis in a patient with breast cancer
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3449108/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/103154
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