Pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking chest wall tumor in a child.
Actinomycosis is an uncommon disease in children and most cases are cervicofacial infections. To date, there have been only a few reports on children with chest wall involvement due to actinomycosis. Here we report a 9-year-old girl with a mass lesion in the chest wall mimicking Ewing's sarcoma of the rib. Thoracic actinomycosis without typical features of the disease is often evaluated with the suspicion of neoplasia. This rare entity should be considered in the differential diagnosis of mass lesions of the chest wall in children. The disease responds well to penicillin treatment.
Pinarli
Faruk Güçlü
FG
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Medical Faculty, Ondokuz Mays University, Samsun, Turkey. fgpinarli1@ttnet.net.tr
Mutlu
Birgül
B
Celenk
Cetin
C
Yildiz
Levent
L
Elli
Murat
M
Dagdemir
Ayhan
A
Acar
Sabri
S
D000190:Actinomyces / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000196:Actinomycosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D010406:Penicillins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012272:Ribs / Q000473:pathology; D012512:Sarcoma, Ewing / Q000175:diagnosis*; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000473:pathology; D014054:Tomography
D010406:Penicillins