Actinomycosis of the Appendix in Childhood- An Unusual Cause of Appendicitis

Actinomycosis is a rare chronic bacterial infectious disease in childhood. A 14-year-old boy admitted with cramping abdominal pain and vomiting. Physical examination revealed right lower quadrant tenderness. Appendectomy was performed. On the histological section, typical actinomycotic (sulfur) gran...

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Autores principales: Karakus, Esra, Mambet, Ervin, Azılı, Müjdem Nur, Gülhan, Belgin, Tiryaki, Tuğrul, Tezer, Hasan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25374793
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author Karakus, Esra
Mambet, Ervin
Azılı, Müjdem Nur
Gülhan, Belgin
Tiryaki, Tuğrul
Tezer, Hasan
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description Actinomycosis is a rare chronic bacterial infectious disease in childhood. A 14-year-old boy admitted with cramping abdominal pain and vomiting. Physical examination revealed right lower quadrant tenderness. Appendectomy was performed. On the histological section, typical actinomycotic (sulfur) granules in the appendiceal lumen were observed.
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spelling pubmed-42072312014-11-05 Actinomycosis of the Appendix in Childhood- An Unusual Cause of Appendicitis Karakus, Esra Mambet, Ervin Azılı, Müjdem Nur Gülhan, Belgin Tiryaki, Tuğrul Tezer, Hasan APSP J Case Rep Case Report Actinomycosis is a rare chronic bacterial infectious disease in childhood. A 14-year-old boy admitted with cramping abdominal pain and vomiting. Physical examination revealed right lower quadrant tenderness. Appendectomy was performed. On the histological section, typical actinomycotic (sulfur) granules in the appendiceal lumen were observed. EL-MED-Pub 2014-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4207231/ /pubmed/25374793 Text en Copyright © 2014 Karakus et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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Karakus, Esra
Mambet, Ervin
Azılı, Müjdem Nur
Gülhan, Belgin
Tiryaki, Tuğrul
Tezer, Hasan
Actinomycosis of the Appendix in Childhood- An Unusual Cause of Appendicitis
title Actinomycosis of the Appendix in Childhood- An Unusual Cause of Appendicitis
title_full Actinomycosis of the Appendix in Childhood- An Unusual Cause of Appendicitis
title_fullStr Actinomycosis of the Appendix in Childhood- An Unusual Cause of Appendicitis
title_full_unstemmed Actinomycosis of the Appendix in Childhood- An Unusual Cause of Appendicitis
title_short Actinomycosis of the Appendix in Childhood- An Unusual Cause of Appendicitis
title_sort actinomycosis of the appendix in childhood- an unusual cause of appendicitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25374793
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