[Acute pulmonary schistosomiasis: correlation between the high-resolution CT and pathological findings].
A 35 years old rural worker presented with a 15 days history of progressive dyspnea, associated with dry cough, myalgia and fever. Few days before the symptoms, he had swim in a river. The chest radio- graphs demonstrated bilateral reticule-nodular infiltrates. The high-resolution CT showed patchy areas of ground-glass attenuation, irregular inter- lobular septal thickening, intralobular interstitial thickening, and small nodules, which are confluent in some regions. All the laboratory investigations were negative. The open lung biopsy shows parenchymal granulomatous inflammation, and numerous schistosome ova.
Soares Souza
Arthur
A
Radiologia da Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil.
Marchiori
Edson
E
Maluf Cury
Patrícia
P
Gasparetto
Emerson L
EL
Escuissato
Dante L
DL
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008174:Lung Diseases, Parasitic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed