A case of inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum imitating malignancy on CT imaging

Lymphogranuloma venereum is a sexually transmitted infection caused by serovars L1, L2, and L3 of Chlamydia trachomatis. We here report a case of Lymphogranuloma venereum, confirmed by PCR testing, which mimicked malignancy on CT imaging.

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Autores principales: Promer, Katherine, Pillay, Allan, Chi, Kai-Hua, Vahdat, Noushin, Katz, Samantha S., Chen, Cheng Y., Fierer, Joshua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Diagnostic Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6406045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30891106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2019.02.012
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author Promer, Katherine
Pillay, Allan
Chi, Kai-Hua
Vahdat, Noushin
Katz, Samantha S.
Chen, Cheng Y.
Fierer, Joshua
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description Lymphogranuloma venereum is a sexually transmitted infection caused by serovars L1, L2, and L3 of Chlamydia trachomatis. We here report a case of Lymphogranuloma venereum, confirmed by PCR testing, which mimicked malignancy on CT imaging.
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spelling pubmed-64060452019-03-19 A case of inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum imitating malignancy on CT imaging Promer, Katherine Pillay, Allan Chi, Kai-Hua Vahdat, Noushin Katz, Samantha S. Chen, Cheng Y. Fierer, Joshua Radiol Case Rep Diagnostic Imaging Lymphogranuloma venereum is a sexually transmitted infection caused by serovars L1, L2, and L3 of Chlamydia trachomatis. We here report a case of Lymphogranuloma venereum, confirmed by PCR testing, which mimicked malignancy on CT imaging. Elsevier 2019-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6406045/ /pubmed/30891106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2019.02.012 Text en © 2019 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/).
spellingShingle Diagnostic Imaging
Promer, Katherine
Pillay, Allan
Chi, Kai-Hua
Vahdat, Noushin
Katz, Samantha S.
Chen, Cheng Y.
Fierer, Joshua
A case of inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum imitating malignancy on CT imaging
title A case of inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum imitating malignancy on CT imaging
title_full A case of inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum imitating malignancy on CT imaging
title_fullStr A case of inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum imitating malignancy on CT imaging
title_full_unstemmed A case of inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum imitating malignancy on CT imaging
title_short A case of inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum imitating malignancy on CT imaging
title_sort case of inguinal lymphogranuloma venereum imitating malignancy on ct imaging
topic Diagnostic Imaging
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6406045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30891106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2019.02.012
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