Pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking a lung metastasis from esophageal cancer; a case report

BACKGROUND: Actinomycosis is a rare bacterial infection caused by Actinomyces. The symptom of actinomycosis is nonspecific and radiological images present as a slow-progressive mass lesion similarly to malignancies. Thus, it is difficult to distinguish pulmonary actinomycosis from malignancies. CASE...

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Autores principales: Nagao, Munemasa, Fukuda, Akihisa, Matsumura, Takeshi, Kimura, Toshiyuki, Seno, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5830051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29486747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-018-0602-z

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