Abdominal actinomycosis in an elderly diabetic
| العنوان: | Abdominal actinomycosis in an elderly diabetic |
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| المؤلفون: | Riyasat Ahmed Memon, Nausheen Yaqoob, Yusra Shafquat |
| المصدر: | Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences |
| بيانات النشر: | Professional Medical Publications, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, General surgery, Case Report, General Medicine, Disease, medicine.disease, Malignancy, Actinomycosis, Abdominal mass, Abdominal actinomycosis, Diabetes mellitus, medicine, Sex organ, Histopathology, medicine.symptom, business, Elderly Diabetics |
| الوصف: | Actinomycosis is a rare infectious disease that presents as three entities, cervico-facial, abdominal and genital, with cervico-facial being the commonest. Due to its subacute presentation and indolent course, abdominal actinomycosis is difficult to diagnose and is often confused with malignancy. We present a case of an elderly diabetic with no known other risk factors of the disease with complaints of right sided abdominal swelling and presence of abdominal mass on imaging, diagnosed post operatively as a case of abdominal actinomycosis, on histopathology. Abdominal actinomycosis should be considered in differentials in cases with abdominal masses. Diabetes Mellitus is not an established risk factor for development of abdominal actinomycosis. Studies are required to link its association with the disease. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.ICON-Suppl.1724Test How to cite this:Memon RA, Shafquat Y, Yaqoob N. Abdominal actinomycosis in an elderly diabetic. Pak J Med Sci. Special Supplement ICON 2020. 2020;36(1):S98-S100. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.ICON-Suppl.1724Test This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0Test), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1681-715X 1682-024X |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::1a0a1f999e2b1cb0d2af36578b6e6dc7Test http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6943106Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....1a0a1f999e2b1cb0d2af36578b6e6dc7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 1681715X 1682024X |
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