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Actinomycosis is a gram positive commensal bacteria. In predisposed individuals like immunocompromised patients, it can cause myriad lesions involving virtually any organ of the body. Involvement of spinal cord with its compression is rare though.
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Mycetomas are localized chronic inflammatory infectious diseases involving subcutaneous tissues, skin and bones. We report a case of mycetoma in a 40-year-old farmer from the north of Senegal. The clinical appearance of the lesions suggested primarily the diagnosis of a soft tissue malignant tumor.
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September 2005
Service de chirurgie carcinologique, institut Salah-Azaïz, boulevard du 9-Avril, Bab Saadoun, 1006 Tunis, Tunisie.
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Acta Clin Belg
August 1996
Service de Médecine Interne, Centre Hospitalier Molière-Longchamp (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgique.
We present an unusual observation actinomycosis involving muscles of the back and probably of one thigh in a patient with pulmonary lesions. The patient was alcoholic and a heavy smoker and his teeth were in very poor repair. Opportunity is taken to review the literature on the rare cases of muscular actinomycosis.
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