title: Two cases of pulmonary and pleural sparganosis confirmed by tissue biopsy and immunoserology.
abstract: Sparganosis in humans is an incidental infection and is known to be associated with eating insufficiently cooked meat of frogs and snakes or drinking unboiled stream water. Although it can involve various internal organs, pulmonary and pleural involvement due to sparganum is rare. Because we recently experienced two cases involving lung parenchyma and pleura that were misdiagnosed as bacterial pneumonia and lung cancer, we herein intend to present them in detail.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kyung Hee Medical Center at Gangdong, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sang Wan
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Yee Hyung
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Eun Jung
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Dae Hyun
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Gou Young
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006801:Humans; D008174:Lung Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology*; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis; D013031:Sparganosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed