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  1. Mohammed KN
    Med J Malaysia, 1993 Jun;48(2):229-31.
    PMID: 8350802
    Actinomycosis is a chronic suppurative granulomatous disease caused by the filamentous bacteria, Actinomyces israelii, which was once thought to be a fungus. It is a Gram-positive, aerobic or microaerophillic, non acid-fast hyphal organism which fragments into coccoid or bacillary forms and, unlike the fungus, does not form conidia. Accessory breast tissue usually occurs along the milk lines, frequently in the axilla and rarely in the thighs. Actinomycosis of the breast is very uncommon and we report the case of a multiparous woman who had a painful lump in the axilla which, on histopathologic examination, showed actinomycosis within the accessory breast tissue.
    Matched MeSH terms: Actinomycosis/pathology
  2. Rosdina Z, Nurul Yaqeen ME, Hanafiah M, Nor Salmah B
    Med J Malaysia, 2017 04;72(2):147-149.
    PMID: 28473686 MyJurnal
    We report a case of a 34-year-old man who was initially treated as community acquired pneumonia following a three-month-history of productive cough, loss of weight and loss of appetite. However, three months after discharged from the hospital, he presented again with worsening respiratory symptoms and radiological evidence of a lung cavitation with intracavitary lesion resembling an aspergilloma associated with surrounding consolidation. Unfortunately, he remained symptomatic despite on antifungal therapy. The repeat computed-tomography demonstrated persistent cavitating lesion with development of necrotising pneumonia. He underwent lobectomy and the histopathological analysis of the resected specimen however revealed the diagnosis of actinomycosis.
    Matched MeSH terms: Actinomycosis/pathology
  3. Sivarajasingam M, Rajan P
    Otol Neurotol, 2007 Sep;28(6):869-70.
    PMID: 17435522
    Matched MeSH terms: Actinomycosis/pathology*
  4. Fernandez SH
    Malays J Pathol, 1999 Dec;21(2):111-5.
    PMID: 11068416
    A 30-year-old Chinese lady was admitted for hoarseness of voice of one month's duration. Clinical examination revealed a granuloma of the left vocal cord while chest X-ray showed an opacity in the lower lobe of the right lung. The provisional clinical diagnosis was tuberculous laryngitis. A biopsy of the vocal cord lesion revealed inflamed tissue with actinomycotic colonies. Cultures and sputum smears did not reveal any tuberculous bacilli. The patient responded to a 6-week course of intravenous C-penicillin, regaining her voice on day 5 of commencement of antibiotics. A subsequent CT scan of the neck and thorax revealed multiple non-cavitating nodular lesions in both lung fields, felt to be indicative of resolving actinomycosis. She was discharged well after completion of treatment. It was felt that this is a case of primary actinomycosis of the vocal cord with probably secondary pulmonary actinomycosis.
    Matched MeSH terms: Actinomycosis/pathology*
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