Primary bronchopulmonary actinomycosis masquerading as lung cancer: apropos of two cases and literature review

S Katsenos, I Galinos, P Styliara… - Case reports in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… The disease can mimic lung malignancy given its nonspecific clinical and radiological …
In conclusion, pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare and slowly progressing bacterial lung

An overview of case reports and case series of pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking lung cancer: a scoping review

A Khoshbayan, N Amirmozafari, S Mirkalantari - Frontiers in Medicine, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Pulmonary actinomycosis (PA) is a rare type of Actinomyces infection that can be challenging
to diagnose since it often mimics lung cancer… , which could mimic pulmonary metastases. …

Pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking lung cancer on positron emission tomography

H Choi, H Lee, SH Jeong, SW Um… - Annals of thoracic …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Pulmonary actinomycosis frequently mimics lung malignancy on radiologic imaging
studies. Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is a useful diagnostic …

Lung cancer mimickers–a case series of seven patients and review of the literature

F Neacşu, AŞ Vârban, G Simion… - … of Morphology and …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
lung cancer is the most lethal type of cancer in the world. Several benign lung diseases or
proliferations may mimic lung carcinoma … The risk factors for pulmonary actinomycosis include …

Pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking lung malignancy: About two cases

H Rouis, C Moussa, A Ayadi, A Khattab, I Khouaja… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
… We present here two cases of pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking lung malignancies. This
radio-… Table 1 summarizes all series of pulmonary actinomycosis masquerading lung cancer

Infectious Diseases That May Mimic Lung Cancer

BJ McKelvy, JAB Araujo-Filho, MCB Godoy… - The Thorax: Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Pulmonary actinomycosis is an uncommon suppurative infection caused by anaerobic or
microaerophilic gram-positive bacteria belonging to the normal oral flora [6]. It is a rare cause …

Mimicking the mimicker: a case of concurrent actinomycosis and small cell lung cancer

A Subramanian, K Lipatov… - … . UNUSUAL PULMONARY …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
… (3, 8) and can also mimic TB or lung abscesses. However, we present a unique case of
pulmonary Actinomycosis presenting along with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). Case An 81-year-…

[PDF][PDF] Pulmonary actinomycosis-the great imitator

A Grzywa-Celińska, J Emeryk-Maksymiuk… - Annals of agricultural …, 2018 - bibliotekanauki.pl
lung cancer, finally turned out to be actinomycosis. The interesting case is presented of lung
actinomycosis in … A tumour with or without cavities, which may ‘mimiccancer, is a pathology …

[PDF][PDF] Pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking cancer: a case report

WS Lin, CC Lin, MJ Peng - 胸腔醫學., 2011 - thoracic-medicine.org
… actinomycosis is a challenge, because the clinical symptoms and radiological findings mimic
lung cancer, pulmonary tuberculosis, nocardiosis and poorly responding pneumonia. The …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical and radiological characteristics of pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking lung malignancy

H Baykal, AF Ulger, D Çelik, FB Tanrikulu… - Revista da Associação …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
… clinicoradiological features of pulmonary actinomycosis, the … help distinguish pulmonary
actinomycosis from lung cancer. … radiologically mimics abscess, tuberculosis, and lung cancer