Pulmonary Actinomycosis in a 65-Year-Old Female with Poor Oral Dentition.

Sha Yi, Rabindra Ghimire, Thomas A Sporn, Ann T Sutton, Dora A Lebron Figueroa, John E Markantonis

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Pulmonary actinomycosis and pulmonary nocardiosis mimicking lung cancer: A case series and narrative review.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2026
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The first CT-based classification system for pulmonary actinomycosis: correlating imaging patterns with therapeutic strategies and prognosis in a highly misdiagnosed disease.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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Sha YiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA.

Rabindra GhimireDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA.

Thomas A SpornDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA.

Ann T SuttonDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA.

Dora A Lebron FigueroaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA.

John E MarkantonisDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0774-0672

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulmonary actinomycosis is an uncommon clinical entity that can be challenging to diagnose due to its non-specific symptomatology. Misdiagnosis and delayed treatment may result in invasive procedures and extended antimicrobial treatment courses. We report a case involving a 65-year-old female with poor oral dentition admitted for acute respiratory failure subsequently found to have a left-sided pleural effusion and perihepatic abscess formation. Cytopathology examination and microbiology studies confirmed the diagnosis of pulmonary actinomycosis.

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actinomycesactinomycosispulmonary actinomycosisthoracic actinomycosis

Identifiers

PMID39001311

DOI10.3390/diagnostics14131421

PMCPMC11241123

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