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Dirofilariose pulmonar humana, adquirida no Brasil: comunicação de um caso

1993; UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO; Volume: 35; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0036-46651993000500012

1678-9946

Vicente Amato Neto, Valdir Sabbaga Amato, Antonio Carlos Pedroso de Moraes Júnior, Giovanni Guido Cerri,

Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment

We report the second published case of human dirofilariasis acquired in Brazil. The patient had two pulmonary coin lesions seen in conventional chest roentgenogram and confirmed as solid round nodules by computerized X-ray chest scan. Diagnosis was done by surgical removal of one of the lesions and anatomopathological study of tissue removed.