Renal actinomycosis presenting as a suppurated solitary cyst

We report the case of a middle-aged female with a solitary renal cyst suppurated by Actinomyces israeli. The patient was treated successfully by emergency nephrectomy. Based on a detailed negative history of inciting events and predisposing factors for actinomycosis, negative imaging modalities for...

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Autores principales: Efthimiou, Ioannis, Mamoulakis, Charalampos, Petraki, Konstantina, Zorzos, Ioannis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19468482
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.42631
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author Efthimiou, Ioannis
Mamoulakis, Charalampos
Petraki, Konstantina
Zorzos, Ioannis
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description We report the case of a middle-aged female with a solitary renal cyst suppurated by Actinomyces israeli. The patient was treated successfully by emergency nephrectomy. Based on a detailed negative history of inciting events and predisposing factors for actinomycosis, negative imaging modalities for extra-renal organ implication and no involvement of the surrounding renal parenchyma, the case is considered as primary renal actinomycosis affecting a solitary cyst of the kidney. This is the first such case reported in the international literature.
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spelling pubmed-26843532009-05-22 Renal actinomycosis presenting as a suppurated solitary cyst Efthimiou, Ioannis Mamoulakis, Charalampos Petraki, Konstantina Zorzos, Ioannis Indian J Urol Case Report We report the case of a middle-aged female with a solitary renal cyst suppurated by Actinomyces israeli. The patient was treated successfully by emergency nephrectomy. Based on a detailed negative history of inciting events and predisposing factors for actinomycosis, negative imaging modalities for extra-renal organ implication and no involvement of the surrounding renal parenchyma, the case is considered as primary renal actinomycosis affecting a solitary cyst of the kidney. This is the first such case reported in the international literature. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2684353/ /pubmed/19468482 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.42631 Text en © Indian Journal of Urology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Efthimiou, Ioannis
Mamoulakis, Charalampos
Petraki, Konstantina
Zorzos, Ioannis
Renal actinomycosis presenting as a suppurated solitary cyst
title Renal actinomycosis presenting as a suppurated solitary cyst
title_full Renal actinomycosis presenting as a suppurated solitary cyst
title_fullStr Renal actinomycosis presenting as a suppurated solitary cyst
title_full_unstemmed Renal actinomycosis presenting as a suppurated solitary cyst
title_short Renal actinomycosis presenting as a suppurated solitary cyst
title_sort renal actinomycosis presenting as a suppurated solitary cyst
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19468482
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.42631
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