TY - JOUR
T1 - Toxocariasis suspected of having infiltrated directly from the liver to the lung through the diaphragm
AU - Kakimoto, Masaki
AU - Murata, Masayuki
AU - Mitsumoto-Kaseida, Fujiko
AU - Ogawa, Eiichi
AU - Matsumoto, Yuji
AU - Kusaga, Akira
AU - Toyoda, Kazuhiro
AU - Hayashi, Takeo
AU - Ura, Kazuya
AU - Kanno, Keishi
AU - Furusyo, Norihiro
AU - Tazuma, Susumu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.2169/internalmedicine.2716-19
DO - 10.2169/internalmedicine.2716-19
M3 - Article
C2 - 31178505
AN - SCOPUS:85072509767
SN - 0918-2918
VL - 58
SP - 2737
EP - 2741
JO - Internal Medicine
JF - Internal Medicine
IS - 18
ER -