Abstract
We describe the case of a 30-year-old asymptomatic farmer who underwent a pulmonary segmentectomy due to the casual finding of a pulmonary nodule in preoperative chest radiography. As bronchoscopic samples rule out mycobacterium infection and malignancy, surgery could have been avoided with the use of serological tests and radiographic follow-up based on epidemiology of dirofilariasis in our country.
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Bronchoscopy
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Dirofilariasis / diagnosis*
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Dirofilariasis / diagnostic imaging
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Dirofilariasis / pathology
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Dirofilariasis / surgery
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Humans
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Lung Diseases, Parasitic / diagnosis*
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Lung Diseases, Parasitic / diagnostic imaging
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Lung Diseases, Parasitic / pathology
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Lung Diseases, Parasitic / surgery
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Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis*
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Male
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Radiography
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Unnecessary Procedures