Abstract
We experienced one case of human pulmonary dirofilariasis, which had been characterized recently as one of Zoonoses. A 70-year-old female, who had been suffering from hypertension for a long time, had a coin lesion in the periphery of the left upper lung field on the chest roentgenogram. Partial resection of the lung was, therefore, performed under the tentative diagnosis of lung cancer. Diagnosis of this disease was established by histopathological findings and serological examinations (Agar-gel diffusional absorptional assay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and mixed passive hemagglutination assay). This disease is extremely rare. But it is clinically important, because of difficulties to differentiate from lung cancer and other respiratory diseases, and to diagnose preoperatively. We discussed the literatures of this disease in Japan, especially about clinical features.
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