[Solid focal lesions in the lungs as first sign of hypereosinophilic syndrome].
The paper introduces a case of 50 years old women who was diagnosed because of solid focal lesions in the lungs with coexist hypereosinophilia in blood smear. During diagnostics neoplastic and infectious diseases were excluded. In the meanwhile secondary causes of hypereosinophilia was not found. The diagnosis of the hypereosinophilic syndrome was diagnosed and atypical (solid) character of focal lesions in the lungs was underlined.
Omernik
Andrzej
A
Military Institute of Health Services, Warsaw, Poland. andrzej_omernik@wp.pl
Targowski
Tomasz
T
Płusa
Tadeusz
T
Dudko
Sławomir
S
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017681:Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011657:Pulmonary Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed