Abscess of adrenal gland caused by disseminated subacute Nocardia farcinica pneumonia. A case report and mini-review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Infections caused by Nocardia farcinica are uncommon and show a great variety of clinical manifestations in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. Because of its unspecific symptoms and tendency to disseminate it may mimic the clinical symptoms and radiologic findings of a tumou...

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Autores principales: Tachezy, Michael, Simon, Philipp, Ilchmann, Corina, Vashist, Yogesh K, Izbicki, Jakob R, Gawad, Karim A
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19954528
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-194
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author Tachezy, Michael
Simon, Philipp
Ilchmann, Corina
Vashist, Yogesh K
Izbicki, Jakob R
Gawad, Karim A
author_facet Tachezy, Michael
Simon, Philipp
Ilchmann, Corina
Vashist, Yogesh K
Izbicki, Jakob R
Gawad, Karim A
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description BACKGROUND: Infections caused by Nocardia farcinica are uncommon and show a great variety of clinical manifestations in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. Because of its unspecific symptoms and tendency to disseminate it may mimic the clinical symptoms and radiologic findings of a tumour disease and the diagnosis of nocardiosis can easily be missed, because there are no characteristic symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of an adrenal gland abscess caused by subacute disseminated N. farcinica pneumonia. CONCLUSION: An infection with N. farcinica is potentially lethal because of its tendency to disseminate -particularly in the brain- and its high resistance to antibiotics. Awareness of this differential diagnosis allows early and appropriate treatment to be administered.
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spelling pubmed-27922272009-12-12 Abscess of adrenal gland caused by disseminated subacute Nocardia farcinica pneumonia. A case report and mini-review of the literature Tachezy, Michael Simon, Philipp Ilchmann, Corina Vashist, Yogesh K Izbicki, Jakob R Gawad, Karim A BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Infections caused by Nocardia farcinica are uncommon and show a great variety of clinical manifestations in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. Because of its unspecific symptoms and tendency to disseminate it may mimic the clinical symptoms and radiologic findings of a tumour disease and the diagnosis of nocardiosis can easily be missed, because there are no characteristic symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of an adrenal gland abscess caused by subacute disseminated N. farcinica pneumonia. CONCLUSION: An infection with N. farcinica is potentially lethal because of its tendency to disseminate -particularly in the brain- and its high resistance to antibiotics. Awareness of this differential diagnosis allows early and appropriate treatment to be administered. BioMed Central 2009-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2792227/ /pubmed/19954528 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-194 Text en Copyright ©2009 Tachezy et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Tachezy, Michael
Simon, Philipp
Ilchmann, Corina
Vashist, Yogesh K
Izbicki, Jakob R
Gawad, Karim A
Abscess of adrenal gland caused by disseminated subacute Nocardia farcinica pneumonia. A case report and mini-review of the literature
title Abscess of adrenal gland caused by disseminated subacute Nocardia farcinica pneumonia. A case report and mini-review of the literature
title_full Abscess of adrenal gland caused by disseminated subacute Nocardia farcinica pneumonia. A case report and mini-review of the literature
title_fullStr Abscess of adrenal gland caused by disseminated subacute Nocardia farcinica pneumonia. A case report and mini-review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Abscess of adrenal gland caused by disseminated subacute Nocardia farcinica pneumonia. A case report and mini-review of the literature
title_short Abscess of adrenal gland caused by disseminated subacute Nocardia farcinica pneumonia. A case report and mini-review of the literature
title_sort abscess of adrenal gland caused by disseminated subacute nocardia farcinica pneumonia. a case report and mini-review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19954528
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-194
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