Pulmonary dirofilariasis mimicking lung cancer.
We describe the case of a 30-year-old asymptomatic farmer who underwent a pulmonary segmentectomy due to the casual finding of a pulmonary nodule in preoperative chest radiography. As bronchoscopic samples rule out mycobacterium infection and malignancy, surgery could have been avoided with the use of serological tests and radiographic follow-up based on epidemiology of dirofilariasis in our country.
Gómez-Merino
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Respiratory and Pathology Departments, Sección de Neumología, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan d'Alacant, Carretera Alicante-Valencia s/n, 03550 San Juan de Alicante, Spain. gomez_eli@gva.es
Chiner
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Signes-Costa
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Arriero
J M
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Zaragozí
M V
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Onrubia
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Mayol
M J
MJ
D000328:Adult; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004184:Dirofilariasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008174:Lung Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D019564:Unnecessary Procedures