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Toxocariasis Suspected of Having Infiltrated Directly from the Liver to the Lung through the Diaphragm

A 37-year-old woman presented to our hospital with mild abdominal pain experienced for 2 months and hepatic nodules in segments 3 and 8. Peripheral blood eosinophilia was observed, and toxocariasis was serologically diagnosed. Seventeen days after the first imaging evaluation, a new lesion was found...

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Autores principales: Kakimoto, Masaki, Murata, Masayuki, Mitsumoto-Kaseida, Fujiko, Ogawa, Eiichi, Matsumoto, Yuji, Kusaga, Akira, Toyoda, Kazuhiro, Hayashi, Takeo, Ura, Kazuya, Kanno, Keishi, Furusyo, Norihiro, Tazuma, Susumu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6794164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31178505
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.2716-19
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Sumario:A 37-year-old woman presented to our hospital with mild abdominal pain experienced for 2 months and hepatic nodules in segments 3 and 8. Peripheral blood eosinophilia was observed, and toxocariasis was serologically diagnosed. Seventeen days after the first imaging evaluation, a new lesion was found in segment 9 of the right lung, which was contiguous through the diaphragm to the hepatic nodule in segment 8. After treatment with albendazole, the liver and lung nodules disappeared. We suspect that larvae had directly invaded the lung from the liver, through the diaphragm.