Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3344158 | The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Sparganosis in humans is an incidental infection and is known to be associated with eating insufficiently cooked meat of frogs and snakes or drinking unboiled stream water. Although it can involve various internal organs, pulmonary and pleural involvement due to sparganum is rare. Because we recently experienced two cases involving lung parenchyma and pleura that were misdiagnosed as bacterial pneumonia and lung cancer, we herein intend to present them in detail.
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