Korean J Radiol.  2006 Mar;7(1):4-6. 10.3348/kjr.2006.7.1.4.

Eosinophilic Infiltration in Korea: Idiopathic?

• Lim JH
• Lee KS

• KMID: 753909
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2006.7.1.4

Abstract

No Abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Toxocariasis/*diagnosis
*Toxocara canis
Lung/parasitology
Liver/parasitology
Korea/epidemiology
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome/epidemiology/*parasitology
Humans
Cookery
Animals

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Hepatic and pulmonary toxoplasmosis in a 53-year-old man. The patient had a left nephrectomy for a renal cell carcinoma three years ago and visited a hospital for a periodic regular check up. He used to eat chops of uncooked cow liver two or three times a year, and three months before the hospital visit, he ate eight chops of uncooked cow liver at a meat restaurant. The peripheral blood showed leucocytosis (15,200 µL) with 18% eosinophils (2,736 eosinophils/µL). The ELISA test for Toxocara canis was strongly positive. A. Contrast-enhanced transverse CT scan of the liver in the portal venous phase shows multiple, small, ill-defined, oval or round, low-attenuating nodules in the liver. B, C. Transverse CT scan with the lung window setting shows three round or oval nodules with a peripheral halo of ground-glass opacity in the left lower lobe.

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