All issues > Volume 31(4); 1988

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1988;31(4):519-525. Published online April 30, 1988.

A Case of Pulmonary Paragonimiasis Whose Parenchymal Lesions Dtected by Tomogram and Perfusion Scan of the Lung.

Jung Keun KIm¹, Kyu Earn Kim¹, Ki Young Lee¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Received: September 5, 1987;  Accepted: November 10, 1987.

Abstract

Recently, we experienced a case of pulmonary paragonimiasis in a 8 year old boy with a chief complaint of intractable pleural fluid for one year. The cystic cavity was detected by tomogram, but not by chest X-ray and apparant regional pulmonary perfusion defect was also detected at the same site of that lesion by lung scan. We report this case with brief review of literatures.

Keywords :Pulmonary paragonimiasis, Lung perfusion scan, Tomogram of the lung