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- Epididymal dirofilariasis is a rare manifestation of a parasitic infection, with Slovakia reporting its third case among 20 infected individuals.
- A patient presented with a painless tumor on the left testicle, which ultrasound revealed as a cyst containing a live Dirofilaria repens worm.
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