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Nodular breast filariasis: diagnosis by fine needle aspiration
D Monchy1, P Noellat, A Nomoredjo
1Laboratoire d'anatomo-cyto-pathologie, Institut Pasteur, New Caledonia.
Pathology International
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
Bancroftian filariasis is a tropical disease transmitted by mosquitoes that most often causes lymphadenitis. This article reports on a breast nodule due to Wuchereria bancrofti in a woman living in New Caledonia. The diagnosis was done by fine needle aspiration, which showed several microfilariae and avoided surgical treatment.