Primary Bronchopulmonary Actinomycosis Masquerading as Lung Cancer: Apropos of Two Cases and Literature Review

Actinomycosis is a rare and slowly progressive infectious disease that can affect a variety of organ systems including the lung. It is caused by filamentous Gram-positive anaerobic bacteria of the genus Actinomyces. Despite its rarity, pulmonary actinomycosis can involve lung parenchyma, bronchial s...

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Autores principales: Katsenos, Stamatis, Galinos, Iosif, Styliara, Panagiota, Galanopoulou, Nikoletta, Psathakis, Konstantinos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4471307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26146575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/609637

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4471307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26146575
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/609637

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