Esophageal Actinomycosis Presenting as an Obstructive Esophageal Mass

Esophageal actinomycosis is a rare type of esophageal infection, with only approximately 24 cases previously reported in the United States. Most of these cases were described as erosions or ulcers when examined endoscopically. We present a 47-year-old woman who presented with dysphagia. Endoscopy sh...

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Autores principales: Alshati, Ali, Appleton, Leslie, Maddux, Jacob T., Almohammedawi, Mays, Dangerfield, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31620537
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000140
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author Alshati, Ali
Appleton, Leslie
Maddux, Jacob T.
Almohammedawi, Mays
Dangerfield, Benjamin
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description Esophageal actinomycosis is a rare type of esophageal infection, with only approximately 24 cases previously reported in the United States. Most of these cases were described as erosions or ulcers when examined endoscopically. We present a 47-year-old woman who presented with dysphagia. Endoscopy showed a lower esophageal fungating mass, mimicking a malignant mass. Although there was a high suspicion of esophageal carcinoma, biopsy results showed esophageal actinomyces infection.
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spelling pubmed-67223772019-10-16 Esophageal Actinomycosis Presenting as an Obstructive Esophageal Mass Alshati, Ali Appleton, Leslie Maddux, Jacob T. Almohammedawi, Mays Dangerfield, Benjamin ACG Case Rep J Case Report Esophageal actinomycosis is a rare type of esophageal infection, with only approximately 24 cases previously reported in the United States. Most of these cases were described as erosions or ulcers when examined endoscopically. We present a 47-year-old woman who presented with dysphagia. Endoscopy showed a lower esophageal fungating mass, mimicking a malignant mass. Although there was a high suspicion of esophageal carcinoma, biopsy results showed esophageal actinomyces infection. Wolters Kluwer 2019-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6722377/ /pubmed/31620537 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000140 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Esophageal Actinomycosis Presenting as an Obstructive Esophageal Mass
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