Pulmonary Actinomycosis Caused by Actinomyces cardiffensis
| Autor: | Masahiro Kimura, Hibiki Kanda, Kiryo Wakabayashi, Toshikazu Ikeda, Shigenori Ishikawa, Kanako Kobayashi, Takeshi Tokushima, Toru Kadowaki, Shuichi Yano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung medicine.drug_class business.industry Pulmonary actinomycosis Lung abscess General Medicine medicine.disease Surgery Lesion medicine.anatomical_structure Internal Medicine medicine Prednisolone Corticosteroid medicine.symptom Abscess business medicine.drug Actinomyces cardiffensis |
| Zdroj: | Internal Medicine. 51:2929-2931 |
| ISSN: | 1349-7235 0918-2918 |
| DOI: | 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.7997 |
| Popis: | We herein present the first case of pulmonary actinomycosis caused by Actinomyces cardiffensis (A. cardiffensis). A computed tomography (CT) examination revealed a nodule with cavitation in the left upper lobe of the lung. One month later, the lesion had almost disappeared, but a new nodule with peripheral consolidation had appeared in the right middle lobe. Because organizing pneumonia was suspected, prednisolone was begun and improvement was seen. However, two months after the initiation of corticosteroid administration, a chest CT scan showed a lung abscess. The patient underwent surgical resection of the abscess. A. cardiffensis was identified by an amplified 16S ribosomal DNA restriction analysis of a pus sample. |
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