Serendipitous actinomycosis infection mimicking malignant lesion in carcinoma of unknown primary

Sayak Choudhury; Archi Agrawal; Swapnil Rane; V Rangarajan

doi:10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_108_18

World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Inhaltsverzeichnis

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · World J Nucl Med 2019; 18(04): 413-415
DOI: 10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_108_18

Case Report

Serendipitous actinomycosis infection mimicking malignant lesion in carcinoma of unknown primary

Authors

Sayak Choudhury

Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Archi Agrawal

Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Swapnil Rane

¹Department of Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
V Rangarajan

Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

Actinomycosis is a bacterial infection caused by Actinomyces species that are commensal in the human oral cavity, digestive tract, and genital tract. The present case highlights actinomycosis of the hypopharynx, mimicking malignancy in ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography.

Keywords

Actinomycosis of hypopharynx - carcinoma of unknown primary - false positive - head and neck malignancy - positron emission tomography-contrast enhanced computed tomography

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