Incidentally Detected Pulmonary Actinomycosis Mimicking Lung Cancer: A Case Report
Actinomycosis is a chronic suppurative infection caused by Actinomyces, a branching filamentous gram-positive bacterium that can involve many organs. When the lungs are involved, it is called pulmonary actinomycosis, which may rarely mimic lung cancer radiologically. The differential diagnosis is ve...
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| author | Abdurrahman KAYA Sibel YILDIZ Onur KUM İlker İnanç BALKAN Ali MERT |
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| description | Actinomycosis is a chronic suppurative infection caused by Actinomyces, a branching filamentous gram-positive bacterium that can involve many organs. When the lungs are involved, it is called pulmonary actinomycosis, which may rarely mimic lung cancer radiologically. The differential diagnosis is very difficult by the routine investigation methods and usually requires tissue biopsy. Here, we report a case of pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking lung cancer, which was diagnosed and treated with surgical excision. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1576aa304795472f94a0715a1e6303272023-02-15T16:09:05ZengBilimsel Tip YayineviFlora Infeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi1300-932X1300-932X2013-06-011829093Incidentally Detected Pulmonary Actinomycosis Mimicking Lung Cancer: A Case ReportAbdurrahman KAYA0Sibel YILDIZ1Onur KUM2İlker İnanç BALKAN3Ali MERT4Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Cerrahpasa Medicine, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, TurkeyDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Cerrahpasa Medicine, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, TurkeyClinic of Chest Diseases, Yedikule Chest Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, TurkeyDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Cerrahpasa Medicine, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, TurkeyDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Cerrahpasa Medicine, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, TurkeyActinomycosis is a chronic suppurative infection caused by Actinomyces, a branching filamentous gram-positive bacterium that can involve many organs. When the lungs are involved, it is called pulmonary actinomycosis, which may rarely mimic lung cancer radiologically. The differential diagnosis is very difficult by the routine investigation methods and usually requires tissue biopsy. Here, we report a case of pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking lung cancer, which was diagnosed and treated with surgical excision.http://www.floradergisi.org/getFileContent.aspx?op=REDPDF&file_name=2013-18-02-090-093.pdfPulmonary actinomycosisLung cancerHistopathology |
| spellingShingle | Abdurrahman KAYA Sibel YILDIZ Onur KUM İlker İnanç BALKAN Ali MERT Incidentally Detected Pulmonary Actinomycosis Mimicking Lung Cancer: A Case Report Flora Infeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi Pulmonary actinomycosis Lung cancer Histopathology |
| title | Incidentally Detected Pulmonary Actinomycosis Mimicking Lung Cancer: A Case Report |
| title_full | Incidentally Detected Pulmonary Actinomycosis Mimicking Lung Cancer: A Case Report |
| title_fullStr | Incidentally Detected Pulmonary Actinomycosis Mimicking Lung Cancer: A Case Report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Incidentally Detected Pulmonary Actinomycosis Mimicking Lung Cancer: A Case Report |
| title_short | Incidentally Detected Pulmonary Actinomycosis Mimicking Lung Cancer: A Case Report |
| title_sort | incidentally detected pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking lung cancer a case report |
| topic | Pulmonary actinomycosis Lung cancer Histopathology |
| url | http://www.floradergisi.org/getFileContent.aspx?op=REDPDF&file_name=2013-18-02-090-093.pdf |
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