A clinicai and radiological picture o f bronchopneumonia was observed in a patien t between the second and third weeks post-infection with cercariae o f S. mansoni.There was a spontaneous recovery without sequelae in 2 0 days and the clinicai and radiological alterations were interpreted as associated with the passage o f schistosomulae through the lungs.Key words: Pulmonary schistosomiasis, Bronchopneumonitis and schistosomulae. Pre-postural schistosomiasis. Lung and schistosomulae.In Brazil various pulmonary changes associated with Schistosom a mansoni infection have been reported 8 9 1011. These pulmonary abnormalities were mainly secondary to the presence of the eggs deviated from the portal system or to the adult parasites and their metabolic products. This paper reports the changes visualized in the radiological study of the thorax, observed between the second and third week after the probable infecting bathe in a S. mansoni endemic area, of a patient who developed an acute non toxemic form of schisto somiasis.
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