Ocular Actinomycosis Mimicking Meningioma.

Open Forum Infect Dis

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

Published: June 2020

Orbital actinomycosis is an unusual clinical manifestation of orbital infection caused by species. Herein we report a case of orbital actinomycosis in a 67-year-old woman with recurrent swelling and erythema around her left eye with an orbital mass initially thought to be a meningioma.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273183PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa170DOI Listing

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