Pampiglione S, Fedeli F
Cattedra di Parassitologia, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Bologna, Italia.
Parassitologia. 1991 Dec;33(2-3):153-7.
The parasitological aspects of a case of pulmonary human dirofilariasis, recently reported by Fabbretti and collaborators (1990) in a 58 year-old man from Ferrara province, are described. This is the second case of pulmonary human dirofilariasis recorded in Italy. The nematode was rolled up inside a small pulmonary artery and was associated with a nodular infarcted lesion, discovered during an X-ray check as a "coin lesion". A pulmonary lobectomy was performed on the patient with a presumptive diagnosis of a malignant neoplastic nodule. The exact diagnosis was only made with the histological examination. In spite of the bad preservation of the nematode, it was possible to diagnose it as an immature female of Dirofilaria probably belonging to the species repens.
法布雷蒂及其合作者（1990年）最近报道了一名来自费拉拉省的58岁男子患肺丝虫病的寄生虫学情况。这是意大利记录的第二例肺丝虫病病例。线虫盘绕在一条小肺动脉内，并伴有一个结节状梗死病变，在X光检查时被发现为“硬币状病变”。对该患者进行了肺叶切除术，初步诊断为恶性肿瘤结节。确切诊断仅通过组织学检查得出。尽管线虫保存状况不佳，但仍有可能将其诊断为犬恶丝虫的未成熟雌虫，可能属于匐行恶丝虫种。
