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Case Reports
. 2025 Feb 22;2025(2):omae192.
doi: 10.1093/omcr/omae192. eCollection 2025 Feb.

Subcutaneous dirofilariasis

Poorvi Sharma  1 , Nitin Gupta  2 , Idzi Potters  3 , Anjely Sebastian  2 , Muralidhar Varma  2 , Juhi Irfana Basheer  1 , R Balakrishnan  1 , Nancy Namrata Mahapatra  4 , Vishwapriya M Godkhindi  4 , Kanthilatha Pai  4 , Anuradha Calicut Kini Rao  4
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Subcutaneous dirofilariasis

Poorvi Sharma et al. Oxf Med Case Reports. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Infectious diseases and tropical medicine.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Subcutaneous worm below the right eye (A); Haematoxylin and eosin stain (200X magnification) of the cross-section of the worm shows smooth longitudinally multilayered ridged cuticle sans bumps (thick arrow), internal lateral ridge with tall coelomyrian musculature (asterisk), paired reproductive tubules (arrowhead) and intestine (thin arrow) (B).
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