GENITAL DIROFILARIOSIS. LITERATURE REVIEW AND CLINICAL CASE

This article depicts the peculiarities of the course and difficulties of genital dirofilariosis as well as describes routes of transmission and incidence of the filaroid nematodes in Belarus and beyond. Genital dirofilariosis is a rare zoonotic filaroid infection in urological practice caused by nematodes of the genus Dirofilaria. Therefore, each case of disease is noteworthy for urologists, as well as physicians and surgeons. We present a clinical demonstration of genital dirofilariosis of a 21-year-old man. The patient was admitted to the urology department with complaints of feeling of pressure and mass in the left half of the scrotum. The patient was fully examined, and a cyst-like formation was revealed in scrotum, presumably of parasitic origin. Surgery and nematode verification was performed.

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