title: Pulmonary dirofilariasis mimicking lung tumor with chest wall and mediastinal invasion.
abstract: We present a case of human pulmonary dirofilariasis, diagnosed in a 55-year-old heavy smoker (male) by wedge resection of the pulmonary lesion and histologic examination. The dirofilaria lesion had the clinical and radiographic appearance of a peripheral pulmonary lesion invading the anterior chest wall and mediastinum. The reported radiographic image of the disease is different from the usually described picture of a pulmonary coin lesion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Larissa University Hospital, Larissa, Greece. foroulis@internet.gr
authors.forename: C N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Foroulis
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Khaldi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Desimonas
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kalafati
mesh_terms: D004184:Dirofilariasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008174:Lung Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography