A Suspicious Pancreatic Mass in Chronic Pancreatitis: Pancreatic Actinomycosis
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A Suspicious Pancreatic Mass in Chronic Pancreatitis: Pancreatic Actinomycosis
Introduction. Pancreatic actinomycosis is a chronic infection of the pancreas caused by the suppurative Gram-positive bacterium Actinomyces. It has mostly been described in patients following repeated main pancreatic duct stenting in the context of chronic pancreatitis or following pancreatic surgery. This type of pancreatitis is often erroneously interpreted as pancreatic malignancy due to the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Oncological Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2090-6706,2090-6714
DOI: 10.1155/2015/767365