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[Human pulmonary dirofilariasis acquired in Brazil: report of a case]
V Amato Neto1, V S Amato, A C de Moraes Júnior
1Laboratório de Investigação Médica, FMUSP, Brasil.
Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De Sao Paulo
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report the second published case of human dirofilariasis acquired in Brazil. The patient had two pulmonary coin lesions seen in conventional chest roentgenogram and confirmed as solid round nodules by computerized X-ray chest scan. Diagnosis was done by surgical removal of one of the lesions and anatomopathological study of tissue removed.