Cat Scratch Disease as a Mimicker of Malignancy

Cat scratch disease (CSD) infrequently mimics malignancy. We reviewed 11 such cases at MD Anderson Cancer Center and an additional 36 reported from the literature. Breast cancer, sarcoma, and lymphoma were the most commonly suspected malignancies. Most patients were young, female, had prior cat expo...

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Autores principales: Dhal, Udit, Hicklen, Rachel S, Tarrand, Jeffrey, Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8675392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34926712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab500
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description Cat scratch disease (CSD) infrequently mimics malignancy. We reviewed 11 such cases at MD Anderson Cancer Center and an additional 36 reported from the literature. Breast cancer, sarcoma, and lymphoma were the most commonly suspected malignancies. Most patients were young, female, had prior cat exposure, and had no systemic symptoms. Regional lymphadenopathy was the most common finding.
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spelling pubmed-86753922021-12-16 Cat Scratch Disease as a Mimicker of Malignancy Dhal, Udit Hicklen, Rachel S Tarrand, Jeffrey Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Cat scratch disease (CSD) infrequently mimics malignancy. We reviewed 11 such cases at MD Anderson Cancer Center and an additional 36 reported from the literature. Breast cancer, sarcoma, and lymphoma were the most commonly suspected malignancies. Most patients were young, female, had prior cat exposure, and had no systemic symptoms. Regional lymphadenopathy was the most common finding. Oxford University Press 2021-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8675392/ /pubmed/34926712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab500 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://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 (https://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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