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Elyette Broly1, Jessie Risse2, François Maschino3
1Resident, Department of Oral Pathology, Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery, Dental Faculty, University Hospital of Nancy, Nancy, France.
Abstract:
This report describes a rare case of pericardial effusion owing to Actinomyces odontolyticus in a 52-year-old woman that originated from a dentigerous cyst, which developed on the distal aspect of a lower left third molar. The cyst had remained asymptomatic for a long period, with no specific functional complications. This is the first case report of a patient with acute pericarditis in which the same strain of A odontolyticus was detected in an asymptomatic dentigerous cyst and in the pericardial fluid.
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