Disseminated Nocardia Farcinica Pneumonia with Left Adrenal Gland Abscess

Adrenal masses pose a diagnostic challenge. The differential diagnosis includes functional adrenal tumors, incidentally found adrenal masses, metastases from an unknown primary cancer, and abscesses. Infrequently, adrenal gland abscesses have been reported in disseminated nocardiosis affecting immun...

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Autores principales: Jackson, Christopher, McCullar, Brennan, Joglekar, Kiran, Seth, Ankur, Pokharna, Hiren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5429156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28507832
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1160
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author Jackson, Christopher
McCullar, Brennan
Joglekar, Kiran
Seth, Ankur
Pokharna, Hiren
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description Adrenal masses pose a diagnostic challenge. The differential diagnosis includes functional adrenal tumors, incidentally found adrenal masses, metastases from an unknown primary cancer, and abscesses. Infrequently, adrenal gland abscesses have been reported in disseminated nocardiosis affecting immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. We report a case of disseminated Nocardia farcinica pneumonia with an adrenal gland abscess in an immunocompetent patient with no identified risk factors for nocardiosis. 
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spelling pubmed-54291562017-05-15 Disseminated Nocardia Farcinica Pneumonia with Left Adrenal Gland Abscess Jackson, Christopher McCullar, Brennan Joglekar, Kiran Seth, Ankur Pokharna, Hiren Cureus Infectious Disease Adrenal masses pose a diagnostic challenge. The differential diagnosis includes functional adrenal tumors, incidentally found adrenal masses, metastases from an unknown primary cancer, and abscesses. Infrequently, adrenal gland abscesses have been reported in disseminated nocardiosis affecting immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. We report a case of disseminated Nocardia farcinica pneumonia with an adrenal gland abscess in an immunocompetent patient with no identified risk factors for nocardiosis.  Cureus 2017-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5429156/ /pubmed/28507832 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1160 Text en Copyright © 2017, Jackson 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 author and source are credited.
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Disseminated Nocardia Farcinica Pneumonia with Left Adrenal Gland Abscess
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title_full Disseminated Nocardia Farcinica Pneumonia with Left Adrenal Gland Abscess
title_fullStr Disseminated Nocardia Farcinica Pneumonia with Left Adrenal Gland Abscess
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Nocardia Farcinica Pneumonia with Left Adrenal Gland Abscess
title_short Disseminated Nocardia Farcinica Pneumonia with Left Adrenal Gland Abscess
title_sort disseminated nocardia farcinica pneumonia with left adrenal gland abscess
topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5429156/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1160
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