PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Reinhard Groell
AU  - Gerhard Ranner
AU  - Martin M. Uggowitzer
AU  - Hannes Braun
TI  - Orbital Dirofilariasis: MR Findings
DP  - 1999 Feb 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 285--286
VI  - 20
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/20/2/285.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/20/2/285.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1999 Feb 01; 20
AB  - Summary: Dirofilariasis is a helminthic zoonosis occurring in many parts of the world. We report the findings in a 61-year-old woman who had painless right exophthalmos caused by orbital dirofilariasis. A vivid worm was embedded inside an inflammatory nodule in the right orbit. On T1-weighted MR images, the parasite was visible as a discrete, low-intensity, tubular signal in the center of the nodule surrounded by contrast-enhancing inflammatory tissue.