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Pediatric thoracic actinomycosis
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, USA. lee_jerome@yahoo.com
Hawaii Medical Journal
|April 11, 2003
Abstract:
Two cases of pediatric thoracic actinomycosis are presented. A review of the English literature revealed forty-six additional cases in the last 25 years. The mean age of diagnosis was 10 years. The most common presentation was a mass associated with weight loss, fever, and cough. Actinomyces israelii was the most common causative organism. Prognosis was generally excellent after long-term therapy with penicillin.