Mycobacterium abscessus granulomatous prostatitis.

Infectious granulomatous prostatitis is uncommon, and most cases of granulomatous prostatitis are classified as nonspecific granulomatous prostatitis. From 2007 to 2009, 5 patients experienced poor wound healing after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer at a specialist cancer center. Mycobacterium abscessus was cultured from the debridement specimens, and acid-fast-positive bacilli were identified histologically within the prostates.

Improving diagnosis of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection by using differential time to positivity as a hospital-wide approach at a cancer hospital.

Objectives: Considering the difficulty of diagnosing catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI), Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center uses differential time to positivity (DTP) as a hospital-wide approach to improve the diagnosis of CRBSI in febrile patients with indwelling central venous catheters (CVCs). This study describes the result of a hospital-wide use of DTP in a real practice setting.

Methods: During January 2003-August 2007, 142 positive paired blood cultures from 125 patients without infection focus other than CVC were included.

Characteristics of integrated 18F-FDG PET/CT in Pulmonary Cryptococcosis.

Background: Pulmonary cryptococcosis is an uncommon cause of pulmonary nodules found by (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography ((18)F-FDG PET/CT) scans. It is rarely reported but may mislead interpretation.

Purpose: To describe the (18)F-FDG PET/CT findings of pulmonary cryptococcosis.

Facial Candida albicans cellulitis occurring in a patient with oral submucous fibrosis and unknown diabetes mellitus after local corticosteroid injection treatment.

Facial cellulitis caused by odontogenic bacterial infection is frequently encountered; however, facial cellulitis caused by Candida albicans infection is rarely found. A patient with oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) and unknown diabetes mellitus (DM) was treated in our out-patient dental clinic by biweekly submucosal injection of 40 mg triamcinolone acetonide into bilateral buccal mucosae plus forced mouth opening performed by the two hands of the clinician. The interincisal distance of the patient improved from 28 to 48 mm after four times of steroid injection.

Evaluation of infectious complications of the implantable venous access system in a general oncologic population.

Objectives: This study was conducted to evaluate the infectious morbidity associated with 2 common types of implantable port systems used in a cancer center in Taiwan.

Methods: This study is retrospective and descriptive. Five hundred seventy-two patients who received implantable ports at the cancer center between January 1994 and December 1998 were included.