Halo Sign and Eosinophilia: What Is Your Diagnosis?

Florent Thevenet; Guillaume Beltramo; Marjolaine Georges; Clément Foignot; Maximilien Spanjaard; Philippe Bonniaud

doi:10.1159/000485137

Halo Sign and Eosinophilia: What Is Your Diagnosis?

Respiration. 2018;95(4):258-259. doi: 10.1159/000485137. Epub 2017 Dec 21.

Authors

Florent Thevenet^{1

2}, Guillaume Beltramo^{1

2

3}, Marjolaine Georges^{1

3}, Clément Foignot^{1

3}, Maximilien Spanjaard^{1

3}, Philippe Bonniaud^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Service de Pneumologie et Soins Intensifs Respiratoires, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
² INSERM, LNC UMR866, LipSTIC LabEx team, Dijon, France.
³ Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France.

PMID: 29268265
DOI: 10.1159/000485137

Abstract

Blood eosinophilia associated with transient and migrating nodules with a halo sign on chest computed tomography scan should suggest larva migrans related to toxocariasis or ascaris suum.

Keywords: Eosinophilia; Halo sign; Larva migrans.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Eosinophilia / etiology
Humans
Larva Migrans, Visceral / complications
Larva Migrans, Visceral / diagnostic imaging*
Lung / diagnostic imaging*