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• TITLE: A Mass Shadow on Chest X-Ray in a 40-Year-Old Man: What’s Your Diagnosis?

  AUTHORS: Foued Bellazreg, Wissem Hachfi, Atef Ben Abdelkader, Zouhour Hattab, Naoufel Kaabia, Fathi Bahri, Amel Letaief

  KEYWORDS: Actinomycosis; Lung Infections; Thoracic Neoplasms

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Infectious Diseases, Vol.2 No.4, December 18, 2012

  ABSTRACT: A 40-year-old man presented recurrent cough and bloody sputum for 4 months. Chest X-ray showed a large mass in the right upper lobe. Histopathologic examination of tissue from percutaneous biopsy of the lesion revealed actinomycotic granules and branching filamentous bacteria, and therefore pulmonary actinomycosis was diagnosed. These findings suggest that pulmonary actinomycosis should be included in the differential diagnosis of a mass on a chest X-ray film.