A Highly Rare Cause of Lumbar Spondylodiscitis with Epidural Abscess: Actinomyces israelii

Actinomyces species may lead to slowly progressive infection of almost any site once mucosal breakdown exists; hence, it has the name “great pretender.” Its diagnosis may be unthinkable unless proper cultures/histologies are taken. We describe a patient with lumbar spondylodiscitis and epidural absc...

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Autores principales: Kapmaz, Mahir, Gülşen, İsmail, Kış, Naciye, Başaran, Seniha, Öksüz, Lütfiye, Gürler, Nezahat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4082937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25024855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/469075
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author Kapmaz, Mahir
Gülşen, İsmail
Kış, Naciye
Başaran, Seniha
Öksüz, Lütfiye
Gürler, Nezahat
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description Actinomyces species may lead to slowly progressive infection of almost any site once mucosal breakdown exists; hence, it has the name “great pretender.” Its diagnosis may be unthinkable unless proper cultures/histologies are taken. We describe a patient with lumbar spondylodiscitis and epidural abscess. This is an exceptional another disease by actinomycosis.
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spelling pubmed-40829372014-07-14 A Highly Rare Cause of Lumbar Spondylodiscitis with Epidural Abscess: Actinomyces israelii Kapmaz, Mahir Gülşen, İsmail Kış, Naciye Başaran, Seniha Öksüz, Lütfiye Gürler, Nezahat Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Actinomyces species may lead to slowly progressive infection of almost any site once mucosal breakdown exists; hence, it has the name “great pretender.” Its diagnosis may be unthinkable unless proper cultures/histologies are taken. We describe a patient with lumbar spondylodiscitis and epidural abscess. This is an exceptional another disease by actinomycosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4082937/ /pubmed/25024855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/469075 Text en Copyright © 2014 Mahir Kapmaz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Kapmaz, Mahir
Gülşen, İsmail
Kış, Naciye
Başaran, Seniha
Öksüz, Lütfiye
Gürler, Nezahat
A Highly Rare Cause of Lumbar Spondylodiscitis with Epidural Abscess: Actinomyces israelii
title A Highly Rare Cause of Lumbar Spondylodiscitis with Epidural Abscess: Actinomyces israelii
title_full A Highly Rare Cause of Lumbar Spondylodiscitis with Epidural Abscess: Actinomyces israelii
title_fullStr A Highly Rare Cause of Lumbar Spondylodiscitis with Epidural Abscess: Actinomyces israelii
title_full_unstemmed A Highly Rare Cause of Lumbar Spondylodiscitis with Epidural Abscess: Actinomyces israelii
title_short A Highly Rare Cause of Lumbar Spondylodiscitis with Epidural Abscess: Actinomyces israelii
title_sort highly rare cause of lumbar spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess: actinomyces israelii
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4082937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25024855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/469075
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