Actinomycotic brain abscess

Actinomycosis is caused by Gram-positive filamentous anaerobic organisms of genus Actinomyces, which are commensals of mucosal membranes of the oropharyngeal cavity, and gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts. Central nervous system involvement is rare and may present as cerebral abscess, meningi...

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Autores principales: Rahiminejad, Maryam, Hasegawa, Harutomo, Papadopoulos, Marios, MacKinnon, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6243313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30460021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150370
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author Rahiminejad, Maryam
Hasegawa, Harutomo
Papadopoulos, Marios
MacKinnon, Andrew
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description Actinomycosis is caused by Gram-positive filamentous anaerobic organisms of genus Actinomyces, which are commensals of mucosal membranes of the oropharyngeal cavity, and gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts. Central nervous system involvement is rare and may present as cerebral abscess, meningitis, meningoencephalitis, subdural empyema or epidural abscess. The radiological appearances of actinomycotic brain abscesses are not well recognized. Here, we present the characteristic imaging features of an actinomycotic brain abscess.
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spelling pubmed-62433132018-11-20 Actinomycotic brain abscess Rahiminejad, Maryam Hasegawa, Harutomo Papadopoulos, Marios MacKinnon, Andrew BJR Case Rep Case Report Actinomycosis is caused by Gram-positive filamentous anaerobic organisms of genus Actinomyces, which are commensals of mucosal membranes of the oropharyngeal cavity, and gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts. Central nervous system involvement is rare and may present as cerebral abscess, meningitis, meningoencephalitis, subdural empyema or epidural abscess. The radiological appearances of actinomycotic brain abscesses are not well recognized. Here, we present the characteristic imaging features of an actinomycotic brain abscess. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6243313/ /pubmed/30460021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150370 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6243313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30460021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150370
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