Splenectomy for Suspected Malignant Lymphoma in Two Patients with Loiasis

Intrasplenic lesions can cause diagnostic difficulties because malignant diseases can be excluded only by histologic examination. We present the cases of two patients with splenic manifestations of loiasis. Both patients had visited central Africa. Several years later, intrasplenic lesions were foun...

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Published in:Clinical infectious diseases 1996-11, Vol.23 (5), p.979-982
Main Authors: Burchard, Gerd D., Reimold-Jehle, Ulrike, Bürkle, Volker, Kretschmer, Harald, Vierbuchen, M., Racz, Paul, Lo, Ying
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Animals
Biological and medical sciences
Clinical Articles
Diseases caused by nematodes
Eosinophilia
Eosinophilic Granuloma - parasitology
Eosinophilic Granuloma - pathology
Eosinophilic Granuloma - therapy
Female
Filariases
Filariasis
Follow-Up Studies
Helminthic diseases
Histology
Humans
Infectious diseases
Lesions
Loa - isolation & purification
Loaiasis
Loiasis
Loiasis - parasitology
Loiasis - pathology
Loiasis - therapy
Lymphoma
Lymphoma - parasitology
Lymphoma - pathology
Lymphoma - therapy
Male
Medical sciences
Microfilariae
Parasitic diseases
Spleen
Spleen - diagnostic imaging
Spleen - parasitology
Spleen - pathology
Splenectomy
Tropical medicine
Ultrasonography
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Summary:Intrasplenic lesions can cause diagnostic difficulties because malignant diseases can be excluded only by histologic examination. We present the cases of two patients with splenic manifestations of loiasis. Both patients had visited central Africa. Several years later, intrasplenic lesions were found during routine examinations (for chest trauma and employment, respectively). Both patients underwent splenectomies because malignant lymphoma was suspected. In both cases, histologic examination of the spleen showed eosinophilic granulomata with multiple Loa loa microfilariae.
ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1093/clinids/23.5.979