Pulmonary paragonimiasis is a relatively rare cause of lung disease revealing a wide variety of radiologic findings, such as air-space consolidation, nodules, and cysts. We describe here a case of pulmonary paragonimiasis in a 27- year-old woman who presented with a 2-month history of cough and sputum. Based on chest computed tomography (CT) scans and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) findings, the patient was suspected to have a metastatic lung tumor. However, she was diagnosed as having Paragonimus westermani infection by an immunoserological examination using ELISA. Follow-up chest X-ray and CT scans after chemotherapy with praziquantel showed an obvious improvement. There have been several reported cases of pulmonary paragonimiasis mimicking lung tumors on FDG-PET. However, all of them were suspected as primary lung tumors. To our knowledge, this patient represents the first case of paragonimiasis mimicking metastatic lung disease on FDG-PET CT imaging. © 2011, Korean Society for Parasitology.
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Kim, K. U., Lee, K., Park, H. K., Jeong, Y. J., Yu, H. S., & Lee, M. K. (2011). A Pulmonary Paragonimiasis Case Mimicking Metastatic Pulmonary Tumor. Korean Journal of Parasitology, 49(1), 69–72. https://doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2011.49.1.69
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