Periappendiceal actinomycosis mimicking malignancy. Report of a case

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 198, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 441-443

  Koren, Rumelia ^a   Dekel, Yoram ^a   Ramadan, Edward ^b   Veltman, Vladimir ^a   Dreznik, Zeev ^b  

^a HASHARON HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Periappendiceal actinomycosis; Surgery; Treatment

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL MASS; ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGED; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOGENESIS; ABSCESS; ACTINOMYCES; APPENDECTOMY; CECUM DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG COMBINATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY;

ABSCESS; ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; CECAL DISEASES; CEFOTAXIME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; METRONIDAZOLE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035988460     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0344-0338-00279     Document Type: Article

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