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Pulmonary Lesions Associated With Visceral Larva Migrans Due to Ascaris suum or Toxocara canis: Imaging of Six Cases

Shuji Sakai1, Yoshitaka Shida2, Naoki Takahashi3, Hidetake Yabuuchi3, Hiroyasu Soeda3, Takashi Okafuji3, Masamitsu Hatakenaka3 and Hiroshi Honda3

1 Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
2 Department of Radiology, International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
3 Department of Clincal Radiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.


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  		Fig. 1A —Visceral larva migrans due to Ascaris suum in 57-year-old woman (case 3). High-resolution CT scan (2-mm collimation) through right middle lobe shows nodule with halo with ill-defined margin (arrow).

 

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  		Fig. 1B —Visceral larva migrans due to Ascaris suum in 57-year-old woman (case 3). High-resolution CT scan (2-mm collimation) through lingula obtained 8 days after A shows another nodule with halo with ill-defined margin (arrow).

 

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  		Fig. 1C —Visceral larva migrans due to Ascaris suum in 57-year-old woman (case 3). High-resolution CT scan (2-mm collimation) obtained through left upper lobe at follow-up shows ground-glass opacity with ill-defined margin (arrow).

 

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  		Fig. 2A —Visceral larva migrans due to Ascaris suum in 62-year-old man (case 4). High-resolution CT scans (2-mm collimation) show nodules with irregular margins (arrows).

 

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  		Fig. 2B —Visceral larva migrans due to Ascaris suum in 62-year-old man (case 4). High-resolution CT scans (2-mm collimation) show nodules with irregular margins (arrows).

 

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  		Fig. 3A —Visceral larva migrans due to Toxocara canis in 46-year-old man (case 6). High-resolution CT scans (2-mm collimation) through left upper lobe show multiple nodular or wedge-shaped ground-glass opacities (arrows).

 

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  		Fig. 3B —Visceral larva migrans due to Toxocara canis in 46-year-old man (case 6). High-resolution CT scans (2-mm collimation) through left upper lobe show multiple nodular or wedge-shaped ground-glass opacities (arrows).

 

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