Alterações radiológicas pulmonares em pacientes com esquistossomose mansoni hepatoesplênica / The radiological pulmonary alterations in human hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni

RESUMO

As alterações radiológicas pulmonares em pacientes com esquistossomose mansoni, forma hepatoesplênica, ocorrem em 75% dos casos. As alterações são vasculares e/ou parenquimatosas. As vasculares são mais freqüentes que as parenquimatosas, com retificação ou abaulamento do arco médio. As parenquimatosas consistem de micronódulos ou rosário, mais observadas no lobo inferior do pulmão direito.

ABSTRACT

The radiological pulmonary alterations evinced by 40 patients with the hepatoesplenic form of schistosomiasis mansoni are observed in 75% of the cases. These alterations are observed on the lung vasculature and/or at the pulmonary parenchyma. The lung vasculature alteration was more frequent than the the parenchymatous, with retification or buldging of the medium arch. The parenchymatous lessions consisted of intestitial nodulation or vascular nodulation, specially observed at the right inferior lobe.