Pulmonary dirofilariasis mimicking lung tumor with chest wall and mediastinal invasion

Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2005 Jun;53(3):173-5. doi: 10.1055/s-2004-830567.

Abstract

We present a case of human pulmonary dirofilariasis, diagnosed in a 55-year-old heavy smoker (male) by wedge resection of the pulmonary lesion and histologic examination. The dirofilaria lesion had the clinical and radiographic appearance of a peripheral pulmonary lesion invading the anterior chest wall and mediastinum. The reported radiographic image of the disease is different from the usually described picture of a pulmonary coin lesion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Dirofilariasis / diagnosis*
  • Dirofilariasis / diagnostic imaging
  • Dirofilariasis / pathology
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases, Parasitic / diagnosis*
  • Lung Diseases, Parasitic / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Diseases, Parasitic / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Radiography