Chest x-ray findings and some clinical aspects in pulmonary paragonimiasis.

Not less than 200 cases have been diagnosed as pulmonary paragonimiasis since 1947 at the medical department of the National Taiwan University Hospital. Of those, definite diagnosis by positive ova from the sputum accompanied by fairly complete laboratory examinations by means of chest x-ray films, blood sedimentation rate, tuberculin test, sputum examination, white blood count with differential and eosinophilia in pleural fluids or in spinal fluids, if necessary, were worked up in 100 cases. Some of these patients were well followed up for as long as three years. Sputa were negative for acid-fast bacilli in all cases by repeated simple smears or cultures.