Ruiz-Sada, Pablo and Ruiz-Sada, Julia and López De la Osa, Javier Ángel and Niño Aragón, Esther and Escalante, Mikel (2015) Just Another Pelvic Mass? European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2 (5). pp. 1-3. ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Objectives: To describe the case of a patient presenting with weight loss and a pelvic mass. Materials and methods: We performed an advanced search in MEDLINE using the key words "wasting syndrome", "actinomycosis" and "pelvic mass". Results: A 63-year-old woman had a well-delimited and tender pelvic mass and was found to be anaemic. Before scans were performed, clinicians considered malignancy and other diagnoses. Conclusion: Actinomycosis is a chronic infection that usually affects the abdomen. Because of the lack of specificity of clinical and radiological findings, a multidisciplinary approach is the keypoint for making an accurate diagnosis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Wasting syndrome; actinomycosis; pelvic mass |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2016 14:19 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2016 14:19 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15042 |
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