Human subcutaneous dirofilariasis: the ‘migrating’ skin tumor

A 46-year-old woman presented with facial pain and discomfort. Diagnosis of subcutaneous dirofilariasis was reached after several months from symptom onset. Dirofilariasis should be suspected, also in non-endemic areas, in patients with a migrating subcutaneous nodule. Plastic surgery is preferred,...

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Autores principales: Mistry, Michelle Alexandra, Hoejvig, Jens, Helleberg, Marie, Stensvold, Christen Rune, Jokelainen, Pikka, Noehr, Anders, Bonde, Christian
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8592590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34790837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2021.2002154
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author Mistry, Michelle Alexandra
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description A 46-year-old woman presented with facial pain and discomfort. Diagnosis of subcutaneous dirofilariasis was reached after several months from symptom onset. Dirofilariasis should be suspected, also in non-endemic areas, in patients with a migrating subcutaneous nodule. Plastic surgery is preferred, as the face is often involved.
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spelling pubmed-85925902021-11-16 Human subcutaneous dirofilariasis: the ‘migrating’ skin tumor Mistry, Michelle Alexandra Hoejvig, Jens Helleberg, Marie Stensvold, Christen Rune Jokelainen, Pikka Noehr, Anders Bonde, Christian Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report A 46-year-old woman presented with facial pain and discomfort. Diagnosis of subcutaneous dirofilariasis was reached after several months from symptom onset. Dirofilariasis should be suspected, also in non-endemic areas, in patients with a migrating subcutaneous nodule. Plastic surgery is preferred, as the face is often involved. Taylor & Francis 2021-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8592590/ /pubmed/34790837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2021.2002154 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bonde, Christian
Human subcutaneous dirofilariasis: the ‘migrating’ skin tumor
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