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. 2016 Feb 15:4:8-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2016.01.009. eCollection 2016.

Calcification of the breasts due to loiasis

Eva Lemmenmeier  1 , Nicole Keller  2 , Natalie Chuck  3
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Calcification of the breasts due to loiasis

Eva Lemmenmeier et al. IDCases. .

Abstract

A 53-year-old HIV-positive female from Cameroon was diagnosed with loiasis in 2013 due to symptoms of polyarthritis and laboratory confirmed eosinophilia. Because of high microfilaremia primary treatment was given with two courses of albendazol and ivermectin and completed with a course of diethylcarbamazine. Therapy was successful as symptoms, eosinophilia and microfilaremia disappeared. In 2015, she had a gynecology check-up where a screening mammography showed several round and linear, meandering calcifications in both breasts, the latter are typically seen in filariasis.

Keywords: Calcification of the breast; Filariasis.

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(a and b) Two views of the left breast mammogram with typical calcifications.
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