title: [Actinomycosis of the liver (author's transl)].
abstract: A case report is given of a 61 year old female patient, who came to the hospital with chronic pain in the right upper abdominal quadrant, fever, chills, dyspnea, and general weakness. 4 days later she died in hemorrhagic shock after having had melena. At postmortem an actinomycotic abscess of the size of a childs head was found in the left lobe of the liver; in addition there was a highly differentiated leiomyosarcoma of the duodenum. Isolated visceral actinomycosis is rare; it should however be thought of when the causes of liver abscesses are being scrutinized. Diagnosis can be established only bacterioiogically or histologically.
mesh_terms: D000196:Actinomycosis / Q000150:complications*; D004379:Duodenal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000150:complications*; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012771:Shock, Hemorrhagic / Q000209:etiology
vernacular_title: Aktinomykose der leber.