A rare case of eosinophilic pleuritis due to sparganosis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 783-785

  Ishii, Hiroshi ^a   Mukae, Hiroshi ^b   Inoue, Yuichi ^a   Kadota, Jun Ichi ^b   Kohno, Shigeru ^b   Uchiyama, Fukumi ^c   Nawa, Yukifumi ^c  

^a Isahaya Health Insurance General Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interleukin 5; Pleural effusion; Spirometra erinacei europaei

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS; EOSINOPHIL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIROMETRA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EOSINOPHILS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL DISEASES; SPARGANOSIS; SPIROMETRA;

EID: 0035434335     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.783     Document Type: Article

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