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.