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A Case of Pulmonary Sparganosis in a Patient with a History of Recurrent Sparganum Infections

수 차례 재발한 스파르가눔증으로 치료를 받았던 환자에서 발생한 폐 스파르가눔증 1예

  • Oh, Yun-Jung (Department of Internal Medicine, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Mi-Jin (Department of Internal Medicine, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital) ;
  • Cho, Jun-Hyung (Department of Internal Medicine, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital) ;
  • Cha, Chi-Woon (Department of Internal Medicine, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Do-Hoon (Department of Internal Medicine, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital) ;
  • Oh, Mi-Jung (Department of Internal Medicine, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital) ;
  • Chin, Jae-Yong (Department of Internal Medicine, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital) ;
  • Choi, Sung-Sil (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital) ;
  • Kwon, Kye-Won (Department of Pathology, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital)
  • Received : 2009.07.02
  • Accepted : 2009.08.11
  • Published : 2009.09.30
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Abstract

Sparganosis is a zoonosis caused by the migrating larvae of cestode genus Spirometra. We report a rare form of sparganosis that invades the lung. A 44-year-old man presented with newly appeared pulmonary nodules that were found accidentally on regular medical checkup, and on sequential chest CT, which we checked at an interval of every 2 months, revealed that the pulmonary lesion had migrated. The patient had a medical history of having undergone surgical excisions for sparganosis in muscles and in subcutaneous tissues of the lower abdomen, perianus, thigh, right axilla, and scapula area, several times over 7 years. A right middle lobectomy was performed and the lesion was diagnosed as sparganosis based on the characteristic histological findings.

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