Infraorbital Dirofilariasis: Conundrum Solved by High-resolution Ultrasound.

• Tác giả: Manali Arora, Rajiv Kumar Azad, Sadaf Khan, Sanjay Sadhu, Deepali Saxena, Vishal Thakker
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 296.11822 Sources
• Thông tin xuất bản: India : Annals of African medicine , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 239459

Tóm tắt

Human dirofilariasis by nematode worm Dirofilariarepens is an uncommon zoonotic infection presenting most commonly as subcutaneous nodules after mosquito bites. Although the subcutaneous nodules can occur anywhere in the body, orbital and periorbital locations are most commonly involved. Imaging makes the cornerstone of diagnosis in cases with strong clinical suspicion since the nodular subcutaneous swelling has many clinical differentials. We present a case of an 11-year-old boy with infraorbital swelling, which was diagnosed to be dirofilariasis on imaging and postoperative histopathology.