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Pulmonary actinomycosis as a rare cause of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: a case report

  • Zdravko Kosjerina EMAIL logo , Ivan Kuhajda , Yale Rosen , Slobodan Sekulic and Vesna Ostric
From the journal Open Medicine

Abstract

Pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor encompasses a heterogeneous spectrum of reactive, infectious, and neoplastic entities. It is composed of spindle-shaped myofibroblastic cells in a background of inflammatory cells and collagen fibres. Actinomycosis is a bacterial infection. It infects the lower respiratory tracts by inhalation or aspiration of oropharyngeal or upper gastrointestinal materials. Only eight cases of pulmonary IMT associated with actinomycosis have been reported in the literature so far. This is the ninth case reported.

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