Acute pulmonary schistosomiasis: Correlation between the high-resolution CT and pathological findings
A 35 years old rural worker presented with a 15 days history of progressive dyspnea, associated with dry cough, mialgia and fever. Few days before the symptoms, he had swim in a river. The chest radiographs demonstrated bilateral reticule-nodular infiltrates. The high-resolution CT showed patchy areas of ground-glass attenuation, irregular interlobular septal thickening, intralobular interstitial thickening, and small nodules, which are confluentin some regions. All the laboratorial investigation were negative. The open lung biopsy shows parenchymal granulomatous inflammation, and numerous schistosome ova.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia
2007
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| Online Access: | http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0873-21592007000500010 |
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