Just Another Pelvic Mass?
Objectives: To describe the case of a patient presenting with weight loss and a pelvic mass. Materials and methods: We performed an advanced search in MEDLINE using the key words "wasting syndrome", "actinomycosis" and "pelvic mass". Results: A 63-year-old woman had a...
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| author | Pablo Ruiz-Sada Julia Ruiz-Sada Javier Ángel López De la Osa Esther Niño Aragón Mikel Escalante |
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| description | Objectives: To describe the case of a patient presenting with weight loss and a pelvic mass.
Materials and methods: We performed an advanced search in MEDLINE using the key words "wasting syndrome", "actinomycosis" and "pelvic mass".
Results: A 63-year-old woman had a well-delimited and tender pelvic mass and was found to be anaemic. Before scans were performed, clinicians considered malignancy and other diagnoses.
Conclusion: Actinomycosis is a chronic infection that usually affects the abdomen. Because of the lack of specificity of clinical and radiological findings, a multidisciplinary approach is the keypoint for making an accurate diagnosis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-45b0a526baec415da03e5707e24067122022-12-21T17:31:22ZengSMC MEDIA SRLEuropean Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine2284-25942015-09-012510.12890/2015_000269104Just Another Pelvic Mass?Pablo Ruiz-Sada0Julia Ruiz-Sada1Javier Ángel López De la Osa2Esther Niño Aragón3Mikel Escalante45th year Resident, Internal Medicine, HCU Basurto, Bilbao, Spain3th year Resident, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, HU Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain.5th year Resident, Internal Medicine, HCU Cruces, Barakaldo, Spain5th year Resident, Internal Medicine, Fundació Hospital de l'Esperit Sant, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, SpainPhD Consultant, Internal Medicine, HCU Basurto, Bilbao, SpainObjectives: To describe the case of a patient presenting with weight loss and a pelvic mass. Materials and methods: We performed an advanced search in MEDLINE using the key words "wasting syndrome", "actinomycosis" and "pelvic mass". Results: A 63-year-old woman had a well-delimited and tender pelvic mass and was found to be anaemic. Before scans were performed, clinicians considered malignancy and other diagnoses. Conclusion: Actinomycosis is a chronic infection that usually affects the abdomen. Because of the lack of specificity of clinical and radiological findings, a multidisciplinary approach is the keypoint for making an accurate diagnosis.http://ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/269Wasting syndromeactinomycosispelvic mass |
| spellingShingle | Pablo Ruiz-Sada Julia Ruiz-Sada Javier Ángel López De la Osa Esther Niño Aragón Mikel Escalante Just Another Pelvic Mass? European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine Wasting syndrome actinomycosis pelvic mass |
| title | Just Another Pelvic Mass? |
| title_full | Just Another Pelvic Mass? |
| title_fullStr | Just Another Pelvic Mass? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Just Another Pelvic Mass? |
| title_short | Just Another Pelvic Mass? |
| title_sort | just another pelvic mass |
| topic | Wasting syndrome actinomycosis pelvic mass |
| url | http://ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/269 |
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