ALLMedicine Actinomycosis Center

May 26th, 2020 - Brain abscesses are the rare and most severe form of actinomycosis, which usually manifests as abscesses of the occipital or parietal lobe due to direct expansion from an adjacent area, the oral cavity. In the medical literature, there are only a ...

May 26th, 2020 - Cervicofacial actinomycosis remains a rare pathogenic finding in the paediatric population. Diagnosis is challenging, as findings are often non-specific and Actinomyces species are generally difficult to culture. Treatment is a prolonged course of...

May 25th, 2020 - End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients are a commonly overlooked immunocompromised population that places them at risk for rare infections. We describe the case of a 78-year-old man with a history of ESKD managed with thrice weekly in-center hem...

May 13th, 2020 - Actinomycoses are rare chronic infections often caused by Actinomyces spp. Cervicofacial actinomycosis (CFA) is caused by primary lesions in the oral cavity and subsequent fistulae, and suppurative and granulomatous lesions on the skin of the face...

Apr 5th, 2020 - Pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), needs to predict treatment response based on test results including immunohistochemistry (IHC), which detects the expression of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1). The...

May 26th, 2020 - Brain abscesses are the rare and most severe form of actinomycosis, which usually manifests as abscesses of the occipital or parietal lobe due to direct expansion from an adjacent area, the oral cavity. In the medical literature, there are only a ...

May 26th, 2020 - Cervicofacial actinomycosis remains a rare pathogenic finding in the paediatric population. Diagnosis is challenging, as findings are often non-specific and Actinomyces species are generally difficult to culture. Treatment is a prolonged course of...

May 25th, 2020 - End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients are a commonly overlooked immunocompromised population that places them at risk for rare infections. We describe the case of a 78-year-old man with a history of ESKD managed with thrice weekly in-center hem...

May 13th, 2020 - Actinomycoses are rare chronic infections often caused by Actinomyces spp. Cervicofacial actinomycosis (CFA) is caused by primary lesions in the oral cavity and subsequent fistulae, and suppurative and granulomatous lesions on the skin of the face...

Apr 5th, 2020 - Pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), needs to predict treatment response based on test results including immunohistochemistry (IHC), which detects the expression of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1). The...

Oct 31st, 2016 - “IN WHICH CLINICAL SITUATIONS CAN THE USE OF THE 52-MG LEVONORGESTREL-RELEASING IUD (MIRENA) AND THE TCU380A COPPER-IUD (PARAGARD) BE EXTENDED?” ROBERT L. BARBIERI, MD (SEPTEMBER 2016) Extended-use IUDs and infection risk For some time now I have.

Abstract and Introduction Primary pulmonary botryomycosis is a rare, chronic, suppurative, and often granulomatous bacterial infection that clinically and pathologically mimics actinomycosis and fungal disease. Visceral botryomycosis is mainly rep...

Abstract and Introduction Abstract Thoracic actinomycosis can masquerade as primary or metastatic lung cancer. In some cases, the infection and cancer coexist. In this report, we present the clinical, radiologic, and pathologic findings of 8 patie...