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Pulmonary dirofilariasis cytologically mimicking lung cancer. A case report
E Akaogi1, O Ishibashi, K Mitsui
1Department of Surgery, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Japan.
Acta Cytologica
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
A case report on a 64-year-old male with pulmonary dirofilariasis cytologically mimicking lung cancer is presented. By transbronchial brushing cytology, several suspect cells with a papillary arrangement showing a high nuclear/cytoplasmic ratio, irregularity of nuclear shape, nuclear enlargement and a macronucleolus were obtained. These cells seemed to originate in the reparative process of the bronchiolar epithelium around the infarcted lesion containing Dirofilaria immitis.