BACKGROUND Actinomyces is a bacterial rod found in the normal oral flora. It can gain entry to the submucosa via trivial wounds and ultimately lead to slow growing lesions which may mimic cancerous lesions. METHODS AND RESULTS We present the case of an elderly, immunosuppressed woman who presented with a herald bleed from a tonsillar lesion. Despite initial operative arrest of the hemorrhage,...

Abdominal actinomycosis is a subacute/chronic bacterial infection that affects different body regions. A 46-year-old female presenting with intermittent abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, transient bowel obstruction, weight loss (18 kg), anemia, and hypoalbuminemia was evaluated in our clinic. Physical examination showed diffuse slight tenderness and a relatively fixed tender mass with ill-defin...

Primary hepatic actinomycosis is one of the chronic abscess-forming infections of the liver. Accurate diagnosis is frequently delayed due to its indolent course and nonspecific clinical and radiological manifestations. We report a case of a 57-year-old man presenting with asymptomatic multiple hepatic masses on follow-up abdominal computed tomography performed 1 year after stomach cancer surger...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this work was to investigate whether clinical cytology could be useful in the preoperative diagnosis of pelvic actinomycosis. METHODS This study involved the prospective collection of samples derived from the endometrium and the uterine cervix, and retrospective data analysis. Nine patients with clinically diagnosed pelvic actinomycosis were enrolled. The clinical an...

Actinomycosis has been recognized to be associated with the use of intrauterine contraceptive device. We are reporting a case where a patient with severe pelvic actinomycosis presented with the clinical picture of an ovarian tumour. A 44-year-old lady attended the A&E with progressively worsening lower abdominal pain. A computerized tomography (CT) scan showed the presence of a large pelvic mas...

Actinomycosis or infection with the ' ray fungus ' is a relatively rare condition in childhood but is nevertheless of importance in the differential diagnosis of chronic (suppuration following appendicitis and of the chronic inflammatory conditions of the jaws, face, and neck. The pulmonary forms of the disease may simulate lung abscess, empyema necessitatis, or tuberculosis, and owing to the d...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cervicofacial actinomycosis is uncommon, but without proper treatment it causes extensive tissue destruction. Early diagnosis is critical but usually difficult with cultures or imaging. Our aim was to identify characteristic imaging features that facilitated diagnosis in seven patients with cervicofacial actinomycosis. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the CT and MR f...

Introduction. Actinomycosis can affect any organ of the body, although cutaneous fistulas are common in actinomycotic infections, and other organs such as the bladder are only rarely involved. Case Presentation. Herein we report and discuss a young male patient with primary vesical actinomycosis. A 23-year-old man was hospitalized complaining of intermittent gross hematuria over a 6-month durat...