Journal article
Ocular Actinomycosis Mimicking Meningioma
Open forum infectious diseases, Vol.7(6), ofaa170
05/19/2020
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa170
PMID: 32529000
Abstract
Abstract
Orbital actinomycosis is an unusual clinical manifestation of orbital infection caused by Actinomyces species. Herein we report a case of orbital actinomycosis in a 67-year-old woman with recurrent swelling and erythema around her left eye with an orbital mass initially thought to be a meningioma.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Ocular Actinomycosis Mimicking Meningioma
- Creators
- Takaaki Kobayashi - University of Iowa Hospitals and ClinicsBradley Ford - University of Iowa Hospitals and ClinicsNobuhiro Fujita - University of Iowa Hospitals and ClinicsA Ben Appenheimer - University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Open forum infectious diseases, Vol.7(6), ofaa170
- DOI
- 10.1093/ofid/ofaa170
- PMID
- 32529000
- NLM abbreviation
- Open Forum Infect Dis
- ISSN
- 2328-8957
- eISSN
- 2328-8957
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/19/2020
- Academic Unit
- Radiology; Infectious Diseases; Pathology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984186556702771
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