[Hydatid disease of the breast case report]

Hydatidosis usually is seen in lung and liver in human. Involvement of the breast by hydatic cyst is rare. A 26 years old woman referred to our clinic due to a palpable mass in her right breast. In ultrasonography a cystic lesion was seen. In mammography an opaque well defined lesion with a thin calcified margin was seen in her right inferomedial maxillary zone with 3 and 4 cm diameters without breast tissue destruction or microcalcification. Diagnosis of hydatic cyst was suggested and confined by pathology. Hydatic disease of the breast is rare. However, it might constitute a potentially serious differential diagnosis of a breast lump in areas endemic for this disease

A case of breast sparganosis

A 29-year-old Korean woman visited the Department of Surgery in MizMedi Hospital with a palpable itching mass on the right breast that had existed for the past 7 months. She had no history to eat either frogs or snakes, but had the history of drinking impure water. Sonography revealed a serpiginous hypoechoic tubular structure associated with partial fat necrosis in breast parenchymal layer and subcutaneous fat layer. It also revealed oval cystic lesions. At operation, an ivory white opaque ribbon-like worm that measured 16.5 cm in length and 0.5 cm in width was extracted. Anti-sparganum specific serum IgG level in the patient's serum (absorbance = 0.71), measured by ELISA, was found to be significantly higher than those of normal controls (cut off point = 0.21). Sonography and ELISA appear to be helpful to diagnose sparganosis. Breast sparganosis is rarely found throughout the world.

Breast filariasis--a case report.

An unusual presentation of filariasis as a breast lump simulating breast carcinoma, in a 50 year old woman residing in Pokhara, Nepal. The case was reported on Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology and also evaluated by histopathology. Morphology of the nematode is that of Brugia species which is unusual in Nepal.

Quistes hidatídicos primitivos de localización extraabdominal y extrapulmonar / Primary hydatidic cysts of extraabdominal and extrapulmonary location

La hidatidosis extraabdominal y extrapulmonar es excepcional y compromete un amplio espectro de localizaciones que habitualmente son respetadas por esta parasitosis. Se presentan 11 pacientes con quistes hidatídicos primitivos extraabdominales y extrapulmonares operados en un período de 20 años, que representan el 1,9 por ciento de todos los casos nuevos de hidatidosis operados en ese lapso. La parasitosis se ubicó en 2 casos en glándula tiroides, 1 en parótida, 1 en mama, 5 en músculos, 1 en región perianal y 1 en triángulo posterior del cuello. Seis enfermos fueron del sexo femenino y 5 del masculino; la mediana de edad fue de 36 años con un margen de 8 a 65 años. La procedencia fue del área rural en 10 pacientes. El diagnóstico preoperatorio fue correctamente realizado en 4 (36 por ciento) enfermos, donde la punción aspirativa jugó un papel fundamental. Todos los casos fueron tratados quirúrgicamente sin presentarse complicaciones ni mortalidad asociadas a la cirugía. En pacientes con tumores extraabdominales y extrapulmonares provenientes de regiones de hidatidosis endémica, debe tenerse presente el diagnóstico de quiste hidatídico y realizar estudios complementarios conducentes a confirmar el diagnóstico, destacando la punción aspirativa del quiste que puede proporcionar el diagnóstico de certeza de la parasitosis

Cisticercose da mama / Cysticercosis of the breast

A cisticercose e uma doenca parasitaria que pode acometer a glandula mamaria, originando nodulo. Uma boa anamnese e exame fisico auxiliam no seu diagnostico, sendo os exames de imagem de valor limitado. A puncao por agulha fina pode confirmar a patologia. O tratamento local e feito pela retirada cirurgica da lesao, sendo de grande importancia a pesquisa completa desta parasitose para terapeutica sistemica adequada da doenca

Quiste hidatídico de la mama: comunicación de un caso / Mammary hydatic cyst: report of 1 case

We report the case of a 63 years old woman with a left mammary hidatd cyst. The patient presented with a left painless mammary mass of four months evolution. Mammography showed a dense image of 9 cm in the left breast. Ultrasound showed a solid and heterogenous lesion. The tumor was excised under general anesthesia. The initial macroscopic inspection showed a tumor with a well defined fibrous capsule filled with a grayish material that contained membrane debris. The pathological study confirmed the diagnosis of a hydatid cyst

Cisticercosis mamaria / Breast cysticercosis

Se presenta el caso clínico de una paciente de 51 años, ingresada al Servicio de Ginecología del Hospital Van Buren de Valparaíso, con el diagnóstico de tumor mamario derecho, observación: cáncer de mama inflamatorio, a la cual se procedió a efectuar una cuadrantectomía mamaria, enviándose la pieza operatoria a estudio, revelando posteriormente la histopatología la presencia de un cisticerco (Cisticerco. Forma larvaria del parásito Taenia Solium) rodeado de reacción inflamatoria en la glándula mamaria. Se presenta este caso clínico por su extrema rareza, al ser ésta una ubicación no descrita anteriormente en los casos de esta histoparasitosis. Se investigó otras posibles localizaciones de cisticercosis, estudio que resultó negativo

Dirofilaria infection in the breast of a woman in Japan.

Dirofilaria infection in the breast of a woman was reported from Japan. A nodule in the breast was excised and histologically examined. The sections of a female nematode were found in the center of the nodule. Based on the morphological features of this worm, it is suggested that this may represent the second human case of Dirofilaria immitis occurring in the breast.