[Diagnostic image (78). A young girl with attacks of anxiety].
Asthmatic attacks in a 1.5-year-old girl were followed by expulsion of an Ascaris lumbricoides specimen: the respiratory symptoms were caused by Loeffler's syndrome.
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D000818:Animals; D001196:Ascariasis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017164:Ascaris lumbricoides / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011657:Pulmonary Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology