Pulmonary Actinomycosis Mimicking Pulmonary Aspergilloma and a Brief Review of the Literature

Pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare pulmonary infection that often exhibits unspecific symptoms and radiological findings. We herein report a case of pulmonary actinomycosis that mimicked pulmonary aspergilloma in an immunocompetent patient.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Higashi, Yoshitsugu, Nakamura, Shigeki, Ashizawa, Nobuyuki, Oshima, Kazuhiro, Tanaka, Akitaka, Miyazaki, Taiga, Izumikawa, Koichi, Yanagihara, Katsunori, Yamamoto, Yoshihiro, Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu, Mukae, Hiroshi, Kohno, Shigeru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5364201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28202870
Descripción
Sumario:Pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare pulmonary infection that often exhibits unspecific symptoms and radiological findings. We herein report a case of pulmonary actinomycosis that mimicked pulmonary aspergilloma in an immunocompetent patient.

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