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Przegl Epidemiol
June 2024
Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
Actinomycosis is a very rare, infectious disease, which is especially difficult to diagnose due to non-specific symptoms and the ability to emulate neoplasms or inflammatory changes. Due to those facts, it is often misdiagnosed or diagnosed too late to be successfully treated. This article presents the case of 31-year-old Caucasian female with recurrent upper respiratory tract infections and tonsillitis as the potential risk factors of actinomycosis.
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October 2020
Department of Infectious Diseases, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 100 00 Prague, Czech Republic.
Actinomycosis is a chronic bacterial infection characterized by continuous local spread, irrespective of anatomical barriers, and granulomatous suppurative inflammation. Due to its expansive local growth, it can simulate a malignant tumour. Subsequent hematogenous dissemination to distant organs can mimic metastases and further increase suspicion for malignancy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Nucl Med
April 2021
From the Departments of Nuclear Medicine.
We report the 18F-FDG PET/CT appearance of abdominal actinomycosis in a 48-year-old immunocompetent woman with a history of laparoscopic cystojejunostomy for pancreatic pseudocyst previously. 18F-FDG PET/CT demonstrated multiple hypermetabolism in the liver, spleen, cystojejunostomy anastomosis, greater omentum, and umbilical region. Actinomycosis was verified by biopsy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFANZ J Surg
July 2020
Trauma Surgery Unit, Gold Coast University Hospital, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Surg Infect (Larchmt)
October 2014
1 Department of Surgery, Kangwon National University School of Medicine, Chuncheon, South Korea .
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