Dirofilariose pulmonar humana, adquirida no Brasil: comunicação de um caso Case report: human pulmonary dirofilariasis acquired in Brazil

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Vicente Amato Neto, Valdir Sabbaga Amato, Antonio Carlos Pedroso de Moraes Júnior, Giovanni Guido Cerri
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1993
• Subjects: Dirofilariose pulmonar humana; Brasil; Exame radiológico; tomografia computadorizada; Análise histopatológica; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651993000500012; https://doaj.org/article/473a7db5e4d941ec8b08af6ba1e74c38

É comunicado caso de dirofilariose humana, adquirida no Brasil. Trata-se do segundo acometimento dessa natureza publicado em literatura científica. Como expressão clínica, foram evidenciados dois nódulos pulmonares, através de exame radiológico convencional e de tomografia computadorizada. O diagnóstico decorreu de análise histopatológica de uma das lesões. 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 computherized X-ray chest scan. Diagnosis was done by surgical removal of one of the lesions and anatomopathological study of tissue removed.