A Mass Shadow on Chest X-Ray in a 40-Year-Old Man: What’s Your Diagnosis?
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A Mass Shadow on Chest X-Ray in a 40-Year-Old Man: What’s Your Diagnosis?
A 40-year-old man presented recurrent cough and bloody sputum for 4 months. Chest X-ray showed a large mass in the right upper lobe. Histopathologic examination of tissue from percutaneous biopsy of the lesion revealed actinomycotic granules and branching filamentous bacteria, and therefore pulmonary actinomycosis was diagnosed. These findings suggest that pulmonary actinomycosis should be incl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Infectious Diseases
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2164-2648,2164-2656
DOI: 10.4236/aid.2012.24024