A Rare Bug and Recurrent Bleed

Isolated pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare entity. Its clinical features and radiological findings are nonspecific, making early diagnosis difficult for clinicians. We report a case of 40-year-old nonsmoker, immunocompetent male without an underlying structural lung disease who presented to us with...

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Autores principales: Sarda, Yashendu, Acharya, Vishak K., Sharma, Deepthi, Chaithra, G. V., Kamath, Madhav M., Rai, Santosh P. V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8213083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34194178
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_137_20
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Sumario:Isolated pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare entity. Its clinical features and radiological findings are nonspecific, making early diagnosis difficult for clinicians. We report a case of 40-year-old nonsmoker, immunocompetent male without an underlying structural lung disease who presented to us with recurrent hemoptysis and was diagnosed to have Actinomycosis after multiple readmissions.

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