[Differential diagnosis of paragonimiasis in relation to tuberculosis of the lung by transthoracic needle biopsy].
In a citizen of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos who has entered the German Democratic Republic for professional training a lung involvement in the shape of a circular focus was established after pleurisy. Hospitalization followed from suspected tuberculosis. Worm eggs of a lung fluke were parasitologically detected in a transthoracic fine needle biopsy. After administering Biltricide the patient undergoes follow-up treatment as an outpatient. No symptoms have ever occurred since. In a differential diagnosis paragonimiasis in the event of unclear pulmonary infiltrates in citizens from South-East Asia should be taken into consideration in the face of pulmonary tuberculosis, and should be cleared up in an etiological diagnosis, if necessary.
D000293:Adolescent; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D010237:Paragonimiasis / Q000473:pathology*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000473:pathology*
Differentialdiagnose einer Paragonimiasis gegenüber der Lungentuberkulose durch transthorakale Nadelbiopsie.