A rare case of ascending colon actinomycosis mimicking cancer

BACKGROUND: Actinomycosis is a rare inflammatory disease caused by an anaerobic bacterium that can rarely affect the large intestine. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a rare case of a cecum and ascending colon actinomycosis in a 72 years old woman, mimicking clinically a malignant inflammatory tumor of...

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Autores principales: Filippou, Dimitrios, Psimitis, Ioannis, Zizi, Diamanto, Rizos, Spiros
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15631636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-5-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15631636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-5-1

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