Pulmonary and cardiac cysticercosis: helical CT findings.
The authors aim to report the chest CT findings of a patient with disseminated cysticercosis, emphasising the pulmonary and cardiac features. The main finding consisted of multiple pulmonary, cardiac and chest wall nodules. The present case demonstrates that cysticercosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of multiple pulmonary nodules, mainly in those patients with similar lesions in the cardiac muscle and/or in the chest wall.
Bastos
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Department of Radiology, Hospital Julia Kubitschek, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Marchiori
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E
Gasparetto
E L
EL
Andrade
B H
BH
Junior
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GC
Carvalho
R C
RC
Escuissato
D L
DL
Souza
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AS
D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008174:Lung Diseases, Parasitic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D003074:Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed