Actinomycosis of tongue: Rare presentation mimicking malignancy with literature review and imaging features

Actinomycosis of the tongue is rare. It may be difficult to differentiate this infection clinically and radiologically from other tongue pathology especially neoplasia. We report a substantial tongue lesion which mimicked malignancy at presentation. The patient was treated successfully with 4 weeks...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Siddiq, Ali, Muhammad, Adegbite, Nurudeen, Vaidhyanath, Ram, Avery, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Head and Neck
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6231289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30425772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2018.10.022
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author Ahmed, Siddiq
Ali, Muhammad
Adegbite, Nurudeen
Vaidhyanath, Ram
Avery, Christopher
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description Actinomycosis of the tongue is rare. It may be difficult to differentiate this infection clinically and radiologically from other tongue pathology especially neoplasia. We report a substantial tongue lesion which mimicked malignancy at presentation. The patient was treated successfully with 4 weeks of oral antibiotic therapy. It is also important that clinicians are aware of the radiological differential diagnosis of lingual actinomycosis.
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spelling pubmed-62312892018-11-13 Actinomycosis of tongue: Rare presentation mimicking malignancy with literature review and imaging features Ahmed, Siddiq Ali, Muhammad Adegbite, Nurudeen Vaidhyanath, Ram Avery, Christopher Radiol Case Rep Head and Neck Actinomycosis of the tongue is rare. It may be difficult to differentiate this infection clinically and radiologically from other tongue pathology especially neoplasia. We report a substantial tongue lesion which mimicked malignancy at presentation. The patient was treated successfully with 4 weeks of oral antibiotic therapy. It is also important that clinicians are aware of the radiological differential diagnosis of lingual actinomycosis. Elsevier 2018-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6231289/ /pubmed/30425772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2018.10.022 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Actinomycosis of tongue: Rare presentation mimicking malignancy with literature review and imaging features
title_full Actinomycosis of tongue: Rare presentation mimicking malignancy with literature review and imaging features
title_fullStr Actinomycosis of tongue: Rare presentation mimicking malignancy with literature review and imaging features
title_full_unstemmed Actinomycosis of tongue: Rare presentation mimicking malignancy with literature review and imaging features
title_short Actinomycosis of tongue: Rare presentation mimicking malignancy with literature review and imaging features
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topic Head and Neck
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6231289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30425772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2018.10.022
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