Human pulmonary dirofilariasis: the first case observed in Greece
Pampiglione, S.; Rivasi, F.; Vakalis, N.
Annales de Pathologie 20(6): 626-628
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0242-6498 PMID: 11148361 Document Number: 512388
We report a case of human pulmonary dirofilariasis in a 31-year-old man residing in the Aigion (Pelopennesus) Greece. The patient was hospitalized for fever of unknown cause. The chest x-ray showed a coin lesion in the left lung. Lung cancer was suspected and lobectomy was performed. Pathology reported presence of a nematode in an infarcted nodule. Its morphology enabled the diagnosis of an immature female Dirofaria repens. Twenty-two cases of human subcutaneous or subconjunctival human dirofilariasis have been reported. The present case is the first located in the lung.