Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2018)

Lung Involvement in Chronic Schistosomiasis with Bladder Squamous Cell Carcinoma

  • Anastasia Saade,
  • Edith Carton,
  • Audrey Mansuet-Lupo,
  • Romain Jouffroy,
  • Diane Damotte,
  • Hélène Yera,
  • Marie-Pierre Revel,
  • François Goldwasser

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2412.180355
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 12
pp. 2375 – 2378

Abstract

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We report a case of chronic Schistosoma haematobium infection with pseudometastatic pulmonary nodules and high-grade squamous cell carcinoma in a 30-year-old man in Mali. Lung biopsies revealed chronic pulmonary involvement of S. haematobium and ruled out lung metastases.

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