Actinomycosis - forgotten disease as a diagnostic challenge
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2019 Actinomycosis is neglected, an uncommon disease caused by bacteria. The greatest difficulty in correct and early diagnostics of actinomycosis is the fact that it often mimics other conditions.
Patrycja Łanowy +7 more
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Orofacial soft tissues actinomycosis: A retrospective, 10-year single-institution experience
Journal of Dental Sciences, 2021 Background/purpose: Actinomycosis is a rare disease. It can often mimic other infectious or malignant diseases, and it is often misdiagnosed. Therefore, it is necessary to provide clinicians with clinical findings of patients with actinomycosis as many ...
Shinpei Matsuda +2 more
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Pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking a lung metastasis from esophageal cancer; a case report
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2018 Background Actinomycosis is a rare bacterial infection caused by Actinomyces. The symptom of actinomycosis is nonspecific and radiological images present as a slow-progressive mass lesion similarly to malignancies.
Munemasa Nagao +4 more
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Mimicking uterine malignancy: Pelvic actinomycosis with giant uterine leiomyoma
IDCases, 2021 Pelvic actinomycosis is a rare disease which is hard to be distinguished from other diseases such as malignant tumors and tuberculosis due to its nonspecific clinical signs and symptoms.
Changzai Li +9 more
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Pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking lung cancer on positron emission tomography
Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2017 Pulmonary actinomycosis frequently mimics lung malignancy on radiologic imaging studies. Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is a useful diagnostic modality for differentiating lung malignancy from benign diseases.
Hayoung Choi +5 more
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Unusual presentations of actinomycosis: a case series and literature review
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021 Introduction: To review unusual actinomycosis cases that appeared as a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge at our institution and to present a literature review on the usual clinical presentations. Methodology: This retrospective review included all
Tomislava Skuhala +5 more
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Primary Actinomycosis in the breast caused by Actinomyces neuii. A report of 2 cases
IDCases, 2017 Actinomycosis is a slowly progressive infection caused by anaerobic bacteria, primarily from the genus Actinomyces. Primary actinomycosis of the breast is rare and presents as a mass like density which can mimic malignancy.
B.S. Leenstra +4 more
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Coexistence of COVID-19, Pseudomonas, and thoracic actinomycosis in a cystic bronchiectasis case
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023 Actinomycosis often leads to cervicofacial infections, but thoracic involvement may also occur. However, the development of empyema is rare. While being followed up with the diagnosis of asthma and bronchiectasis, our case was hospitalized for infected ...
Emine Afsin +3 more
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Omental actinomycosis mimicking a foreign body infection
Radiology Case Reports, 2022 Actinomycosis is a chronic suppurative granulomatous disease caused by Actinomyces species. Abdominal actinomycosis is a rare condition and difficult to diagnose before surgery.
Myeong Ja Jeong, MD
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Maxillary osteosarcoma in a beef suckler cow [PDF]
, 2012 A ten-year-old beef suckler cow was referred to the Scottish Centre for Production Animal Health and Food Safety of the University of Glasgow, because of facial swelling in the region of the right maxilla.
Barrett, D.C., Prins, D.G.J., Wittek, T.
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