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Cervicofacial actinomycosis: still a difficult differential diagnosis.
Cervicofacial actinomycosis, a rare chronic infectious disease, is, however, an important clinical entity, due to the difficulties involved, still today, in its diagnosis. Following personal experience in a case referred to our Department, and in agreement with reports in the literature, attention is drawn to the presenting clinical manifestations, stressing that these are often confusing since...
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Human actinomycosis is a bacterial infection caused primarily by Actinomyces israelii, a resident of the oral cavity. The cervicofacial region is most commonly affected; thoracic and abdominal forms of the disease have also been distinguished. Actinomycosis is sometimes difficult to diagnose and it should be borne in mind in the differential diagnosis of numerous infectious and non-infectious d...
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two cases of advanced jaw destruction du e to act inomyces is mreported ; o ne with d iabetic d iathesis and a history o f too th ex tractio n the other had a t rauma o f the mandible wi th the fra cture; good results were obtained with penicillin thera py.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0884-8734,1525-1497
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-3001-z