منابع مشابه
[Thoracic actinomycosis].
Thoracic actinomycosis was identified in a 14 year old girl. The disease is infrequent in children and diagnosis is difficult. The occurrence of a protracted pulmonary lesion, together with osteomyelitis of several ribs and by fistulae formation in the chest wall, with production of characteristic "sulfur granules", were the key elements to suspect the right diagnosis, which was confirmed by a ...
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Actinomyces israelii is a branching anaerobic bacilli microorganism that can be identified as normal flora throughout various portions of the human alimentary canal. It is crucial to establish a diagnosis as treatment will vary depending on the clinical form of the disease. We report a case of a 78-year-old man who initially presented with an acute onset of respiratory distress displayed contra...
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A male 30-year-old computer programmer presented to his general practitioner in April with dyspnoea on climbing one flight of stairs, night sweats, non-productive cough, and a loss of 6 35 kg over a three-month period. During early August he developed pain and swelling in his right calf muscle and the overlying skin was reddened; shortly after this he developed a fluctuant swelling over the low...
متن کاملTwo cases of thoracic actinomycosis in children.
Most textbooks of paediatrics consider actinomycosis a rare infection in children and few collective studies or case reports in children have been reported. Pyogenic infection of the chest is common in Malaya and Singapore, but there has been no recorded case of actinomycosis in children so far, and it is because of the rarity of the condition that it is felt worth while to report these two cas...
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BACKGROUND Thoracic actinomycosis is an uncommon, chronic suppurative bacterial infection caused by actinomyces species, especially Actinomyces israelii. METHODS It is usually seen in immunocompetent patients with respiratory disorders, poor oral hygiene, alcoholism and chronic debilitating diseases. RESULTS We illustrate the radiological manifestations of thoracic actinomycoses in various ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1958
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5078.1025