Streptococcus agalactiae Endocarditis and Giant Pyomyoma Simulating Ovarian Cancer

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 508-511

  Genta, Pedro R ^a,b   Dias, Maria L N ^a   Janiszewski, Telma A ^a   Carvalho, Jesus P ^a   Arai, Milton H ^a   Meireles, Luiz P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEIOMYOMA; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY TUMOR; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ABSCESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035345392     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200194050-00014     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Schwartz B, Schuchat A, Oxtoby MJ, et al: Invasive group B streptococcal disease in adults. a population-based study in metropolitan Atlanta. JAMA 1991; 266:1112-1114
2. Farley MM, Harvey C, Stull T, et al: A population-based assessment of invasive disease due to group B streptococcus in non-pregnant adults. N Engl J Med 1993; 328:1807-1811
3. Jackson LA, Hisldon R, Farley MM, et al: Risk factors for group B streptococcal disease in adults. Ann Intern Med 1995; 123:415-420
4. Schrag SJ, Zwicki S, Farley MM, et al: Group B streptococcal disease in the era of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis. N Engl J Med 2000; 342:15-20
5. Prahlow JA, Cappellari JO, Washburn AS: Uterine pyomyoma as a complication of pregnancy in an intravenous drug abuser. South Med J 1996; 89:892-895
6. Tobias DH, Koenigsberg M, Kogan M, et al: Pyomyoma after uterine instrumentation, a case report. J Reprod Med 1996; 41:375-378
7. Prichard JG, Lowenstein MH, Silverman IJ, et al: Streptococcus milleri pyomyoma simulating infective endocarditis. Obstet Gynecol 1986; 68(suppl 3):46S-49S
8. Yang CH, Wang CK: Edwardsiella tarda bacteraemia complicated by acute pancreatitis and pyomyoma. J Infect 1999; 38:124-131
9. Greenspoon JS, Ault M, James BA, et al: Pyomoyoma associated with polymicrobial bacteremia and fatal septic shock: case report and review of the literature. Obstet Gynecol Surv 1990; 45:563-569
10. Bedrosian L, Gabriels AG Jr, Hengerer AD: Ruptured suppurating myoma: a surgical emergency. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1956; 71:1145-1147
11. Dubois J, Neumann E: Necrobiose d'un volumineux fibrome trois semaines après un accouchement normal. Bull Fed Soc Gynecol Obstet Lang Fr 1957; 9:160-161
12. Fuller Jr AF, Lawrence D: Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. weekly clinicopathological exercises. case 23-1985: a 68-year-old woman with a huge abdominal mass containing pus. N Engl J Med 1985; 312:1505-1511
13. Kaufmann BN, Cooper VM, Cookson P: Clostridium perfringens septicemia complicating degenerating uterine leiomyomas. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1974; 118:877-878
14. Miller I: Suppurating fibromyomas. report of a case with a review of the literature. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1945; 50:522-526
15. Ruch WA: Intrapartum rupture of a suppurative myoma with purulent peritonitis: report of a case. Obstet Gynecol 1963; 21:593-596
16. Weiss G, Sheaker L, Gorstein F: Suppurating myoma with spontaneous drainage through abdominal wall. N Y State J Med 1976; 76:572-573
17. Wong TC, Bard DS, Pearce LW: Unusual case of IUD-associated postabortal sepsis complicated by an infected necrotic leiomyoma, suppurative pelvic thrombophlebitis, ovarian vein thrombosis, hematoperitoneum and drug fever. J Ark Med Soc 1986; 83:138-147
18. Maenpaa J, Nurmi M, Taina E, et al: A giant unhomogenous leiomyoma simulating ovarian cancer. a case report. Ann Chir Gynaecol Suppl 1987; 76(suppl 202):100-102
19. Branagan G, Woolas RP, Senapati A, et al: Streptococcus milleri infection mimicking ovarian carcinoma. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1999; 106:745-746
20. Zanotti KM: Screening for gynecologic cancer. Med Clin North Am 1999; 83:1467-1487
21. Azzam ZS, Ron Y, Oren L, et al: Group B streptococcal tricuspid valve endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature. Int J Cardiol 1998; 64:259-263
22. Ogawa N, Hayashi Y, Maehara T, et al: A surgically treated case of acute pulmonary embolism owing to deep venous thrombosis of the leg mainly caused by uterine myoma. Kyobu Geka 1992; 45:631-634
23. Jensen KR: Deep thrombophlebitis in polycythemia and uterine fibroma. Ugeskr Laeger 1990; 152:2316
24. Certain J: Phlebites et phlebo-thromboses en medicine practicienne. Phlebologie 1975; 28:583-587