Mandibular actinomyces infection mimicking a malignancy: case report
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Mandibular Actinomyces Infection Mimicking a Malignancy: Case Report.
Actinomycosis is a rare, chronic, suppurative and granulomatous disease caused by Actinomyces israelii, which is a filamentous, anaerobic, gram-positive, saprophytic organism in the oral cavity. Diagnosis of actinomycosis depends on positive culture or identification of Actinomyces colonies and sulfur granules in histological specimens. In our case, a mass had been growing in the mandible for e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Pathology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1018-5615,1309-5730
DOI: 10.5146/tjpath.2014.01276