Vertebral and pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking metastatic lung cancer

Journal of Neurological Surgery, Part A: Central European Neurosurgery

Volumn 74, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Fichte, Susanne ^a   Brodhun, Michael ^a   Göttinger, Sascha ^a   Rosahl, Steffen ^a   Klisch, Joachim ^a   Gerlach, Rüdiger ^a  

^a HELIOS KLINIKUM ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; actinomycosis; osteomyelitis; pulmonary; spinal

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ANTERIOR CORPECTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMOBILIZATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG ACTINOMYCOSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE PLATE; SPINE SURGERY; TITANIUM CAGE; VERTEBRA BODY COLLAPSE; VERTEBRAL ACTINOMYCOSIS;

ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84890470165     PISSN: 21936315     EISSN: 21936323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1342930     Document Type: Article

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