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Human pulmonary dirofilariasis: does diagnosis require thoracotomy?
A G Fleisher1, J J Messina, S F Ryan
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10025.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
The incidence of pulmonary coin lesions as a result of Dirofilaria immitis (dog heartworm) seems to be increasing. A case of human pulmonary dirofilariasis is described, and its pathogenesis and the limitations of preoperative diagnostic tests in this condition are discussed.