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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Veröffentlicht in:Internal Medicine 2019/09/15, Vol.58(18), pp.2737-2741
Hauptverfasser: 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
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:0918-2918
1349-7235
DOI:10.2169/internalmedicine.2716-19