Ocular Actinomycosis Mimicking Meningioma

Orbital actinomycosis is an unusual clinical manifestation of orbital infection caused by Actinomyces species. Herein we report a case of orbital actinomycosis in a 67-year-old woman with recurrent swelling and erythema around her left eye with an orbital mass initially thought to be a meningioma.

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Autores principales: Kobayashi, Takaaki, Ford, Bradley, Fujita, Nobuhiro, Appenheimer, A Ben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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ID Teaching Cases
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32529000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa170
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description Orbital actinomycosis is an unusual clinical manifestation of orbital infection caused by Actinomyces species. Herein we report a case of orbital actinomycosis in a 67-year-old woman with recurrent swelling and erythema around her left eye with an orbital mass initially thought to be a meningioma.
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spelling pubmed-72731832020-06-10 Ocular Actinomycosis Mimicking Meningioma Kobayashi, Takaaki Ford, Bradley Fujita, Nobuhiro Appenheimer, A Ben Open Forum Infect Dis ID Teaching Cases Orbital actinomycosis is an unusual clinical manifestation of orbital infection caused by Actinomyces species. Herein we report a case of orbital actinomycosis in a 67-year-old woman with recurrent swelling and erythema around her left eye with an orbital mass initially thought to be a meningioma. Oxford University Press 2020-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7273183/ /pubmed/32529000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa170 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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