title: Pulmonary cysticercus.
abstract: Cysticercus cellulosae, the encysted larva of Taenia solium, is reported in a solitary granulomatous lesion excised from the lung of a 61-year-old woman from Thailand. No extrapulmonary signs of cysticercosis were manifest preoperatively, and the diagnosis was not suspected clinically. Pulmonary cysticercus is rarely diagnosed histologically. When unaccompanied by extrapulmonary disease, a single cysticercus lung lesion may be clinically and radiologically indistinguishable from other granulomata and malignancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Walts
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nivatpumin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Epstein
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery; D003552:Cysticercus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D008174:Lung Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests