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Actinomycosis simulating pulmonary neoplasm in a previously healthy man. Case report
P Aarnio1, E Keskitalo, E Nieminen
1Department of Surgery, Satakunta Central Hospital, Pori, Finland.
Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
In a 41-year-old, previously healthy man, a pulmonary opacity presented diagnostic difficulties. Thoracotomy with resection of lung and ribs revealed actinomycosis. Postoperatively the patient responded well to long-term penicillin therapy.