1 Faculty of Health Sciences, Marien Ngouabi University, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. 2 Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy and Citology, Brazzaville University Hospital, Brazzaville, Republic ...

1. Department of Radiology, Vedantaa Institute of Medical Sciences, Maharashtra, India 2. Department of Radiology, Seth GSMC and KEM Hospital, Maharashtra, India Actinomycosis is an uncommon, chronic, ...

Actinomycosis in human is most commonly caused by Actinomyces israelii [1,3,21–26] which is an endogenous commensal present in the oral and GI-tract flora. [9,10,12,22,27] Actinomycetes typically ...

aDepartment of Urology, University Hospital of the Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia bDepartment of Pathology, University Hospital of the Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia ...

IN the following fairly typical case of cervicofacial actinomycosis, unrecognized for almost five years, a question of the value of various diagnostic and therapeutic methods arises. In September, ...

Actinomycosis is a rare, chronic bacterial infection caused by Actinomyces species, characterized by granulomatous inflammation, abscesses, and sinus tracts. It primarily affects the cervicofacial ...

Althuogh extremely rare, primary gastric actinomycosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of radiologic and gastroscopic diffuse gastric wall thickening and submucosal tumor-like or ...

A case of pericardial actinomycosis mimicking a pericardial tumour is reported. After the appearance of non-specific subpleural pulmonary nodules, a 48 year old woman presented with fever and clinical ...

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Actinomycosis is the name applied to the condition resulting from invasion and growth in the body tissues of a micro-organism, the actinomyces. In 1877 Bollinger 3 described actinomycosis in animals, ...