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Volume 28, Number 2—February 2022
Research Letter

Dirofilaria immitis Pulmonary Dirofilariasis, Slovakia

Martina Miterpáková, Daniela AntolováComments to Author , Jana Rampalová, Miroslava Undesser, Tomáš Krajčovič, and Bronislava Víchová
Author affiliations: Institute of Parasitology of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia (M. Miterpáková, D. Antolová, B. Víchová); Unilabs Slovakia Ltd., Diagnostic Center of Pathology, Bratislava, Slovakia (J. Rampalová, T. Krajčovič); Ambulance of Pneumology and Phthisiology, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia (M. Undesser)

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Histologic examination of resected tissue from a 66-year-old woman from southwestern Slovakia. A, B) Cross section showing Dirofilaria immitis nematodes embedded in necrotic material obtained from well-defined pulmonary nodule. Hematoxylin and eosin staining; original magnification ×20 for panel A, ×100 for panel. C, D) Chest computed tomography scan showing a subpleural focal lesion in the S10 segment of the right lung (arrows).

Figure. Histologic examination of resected tissue from a 66-year-old woman from southwestern Slovakia. A, B) Cross section showing Dirofilaria immitis nematodes embedded in necrotic material obtained from well-defined pulmonary nodule. Hematoxylin and eosin staining; original magnification ×20 for panel A, ×100 for panel. C, D) Chest computed tomography scan showing a subpleural focal lesion in the S10 segment of the right lung (arrows).

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