Two Cases of Pulmonary Dirofilariasis in Nagasaki Prefecture

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  • KAWAMURA Sumio
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
  • YASUOKA Chie
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
  • KOGA Hironobu
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
  • TASHIRO Takayoshi
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
  • ETOH Hideaki
    Department of Pathology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
  • ASHIDA Michiko
    Department of Internal Medicine, Sasebo General Hospital
  • ARAKI Jun
    Department of Internal Medicine, Sasebo General Hospital
  • ASAI Sadahiro
    Department of Internal Medicine, Sasebo General Hospital
  • IZUMIKAWA Kin-ichi
    Izumikawa Hospital
  • AYABE Hiroyoshi
    The first Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University School of Medicine
  • KOHNO Shigeru
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine

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  • 長崎県内で確認された肺犬糸状虫症の2例

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Abstract

We reported two cases of pulmonary dirofilariasis in Nagasaki Prefecture. Each case was admitted to our hospitals for evaluation of an abnormal shadow on chest X-ray film taken for examination. We strongly suspected lung cancer before operation. It was resected in order to confirm the pathological diagnosis. There was a Dirofilaria immitis in the vessels surrounded by the necrotic tissues. The case of pulmonary dirofilariasis tends to increase in Japan, but the positive rate of dogs with Dirofilaria immitis tends to decrease, because of decreasing breeding places of mosquitoes by the spread of the public sewage system in Nagasaki City.

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  • Kansenshogaku Zasshi

    Kansenshogaku Zasshi 70 (7), 746-751, 1996

    The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases

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