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Pulmonary dirofilariasis mimicking lung cancer
E Gómez-Merino1, E Chiner, J Signes-Costa
1Respiratory and Pathology Departments, Sección de Neumología, Hospital Universitari Sant Joan d'Alacant, Carretera Alicante-Valencia s/n, 03550 San Juan de Alicante, Spain. gomez_eli@gva.es
Abstract:
We describe the case of a 30-year-old asymptomatic farmer who underwent a pulmonary segmentectomy due to the casual finding of a pulmonary nodule in preoperative chest radiography. As bronchoscopic samples rule out mycobacterium infection and malignancy, surgery could have been avoided with the use of serological tests and radiographic follow-up based on epidemiology of dirofilariasis in our country.