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Abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis: Report of a case and review of the literature
Pyomyositis is an uncommon primary bacterial infection of skeletal muscles, usually caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Predisposing factors for pyomyositis include immunodeficiency, trauma, injection drug use, concurrent infection and malnutrition. The diagnosis, staging of the disease and differentia...
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PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5907734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29721242 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2018.7522 |
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author | Fountoukis, Tilemachos Tsatsanidis, Nikolaos Tilkeridou, Maria Konstantinou, Ioannis Fytas, Pantelis Skandalos, Ioannis |
author_facet | Fountoukis, Tilemachos Tsatsanidis, Nikolaos Tilkeridou, Maria Konstantinou, Ioannis Fytas, Pantelis Skandalos, Ioannis |
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description | Pyomyositis is an uncommon primary bacterial infection of skeletal muscles, usually caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Predisposing factors for pyomyositis include immunodeficiency, trauma, injection drug use, concurrent infection and malnutrition. The diagnosis, staging of the disease and differential diagnosis are established by ultrasound, CT and MRI. Treatment involves surgical drainage and antibiotic therapy. We report a case of abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis, which constitutes, as far as we know, the second reported in bibliography, while Prevotella disiens is firstly reported as causative agent. |
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spelling | pubmed-59077342018-05-02 Abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis: Report of a case and review of the literature Fountoukis, Tilemachos Tsatsanidis, Nikolaos Tilkeridou, Maria Konstantinou, Ioannis Fytas, Pantelis Skandalos, Ioannis Infect Dis Rep Case Report Pyomyositis is an uncommon primary bacterial infection of skeletal muscles, usually caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Predisposing factors for pyomyositis include immunodeficiency, trauma, injection drug use, concurrent infection and malnutrition. The diagnosis, staging of the disease and differential diagnosis are established by ultrasound, CT and MRI. Treatment involves surgical drainage and antibiotic therapy. We report a case of abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis, which constitutes, as far as we know, the second reported in bibliography, while Prevotella disiens is firstly reported as causative agent. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2018-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5907734/ /pubmed/29721242 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2018.7522 Text en ©Copyright T. Fountoukis et al., 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Fountoukis, Tilemachos Tsatsanidis, Nikolaos Tilkeridou, Maria Konstantinou, Ioannis Fytas, Pantelis Skandalos, Ioannis Abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis: Report of a case and review of the literature |
title | Abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis: Report of a case and review of the literature |
title_full | Abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis: Report of a case and review of the literature |
title_fullStr | Abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis: Report of a case and review of the literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis: Report of a case and review of the literature |
title_short | Abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis: Report of a case and review of the literature |
title_sort | abdominal rectus muscle pyomyositis: report of a case and review of the literature |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5907734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29721242 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2018.7522 |
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