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Calcifications in the breast in Filaria loa infection
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Karolinska Sjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
Acta Radiologica (Stockholm, Sweden : 1987)
|September 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 40-year-old patient underwent mammography for evaluation of a mass. Atypical calcifications were observed in the opposite breast. Two types of calcification were observed: one type was spiral-shaped and the other type rod-shaped. These calcifications were caused by Filaria loa. Parasitic calcifications in the breast are uncommon.