Considerazioni su un caso di actinomicosi cervicale

Amelia Romano; Salvatore Giordano; Laura Infurnari; Giuseppe Lipani; Lorenzo Marasà; Francesco Scarlata

doi:10.4081/mm.2005.2969

Considerazioni su un caso di actinomicosi cervicale

https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2005.2969

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Vol. 20 No. 4 (2005)

Submitted: 24 February 2014
Accepted: 24 February 2014

Published: 31 December 2005

Lymphoadenopaty, actinomycosis, flogosys

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Actinomycosis is a bacterial infection due to Gram positive bacteria of Actinomyces genus. Actinomyces israelii is the most common in human infection.The authors described a case occurred in a 43 aged woman with a clinical presentation of a right submandibular indurative mass.After surgery, histological examination showed a granulomatous tissue with many actinomycetes. Patient was submitted to treatment with i.v penicillin. On the 11th day antibiotic therapy was replaced with ceftriaxone and teicoplanina. Patient did not present intercurrence during this period and presented improvement of the lesion.Actinomycosis is an uncommon disease. Establishment of the definite diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion in all cases of relapsing cervical lesions. Penicillin is effective and it can be replaced by third-generation cephalosporins.

Romano, A., Giordano, S., Infurnari, L., Lipani, G., Marasà, L., & Scarlata, F. (2005). Considerazioni su un caso di actinomicosi cervicale. Microbiologia Medica, 20(4). https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2005.2969