Kobayashi T, Ford B, Fujita N, Appenheimer AB. Ocular Actinomycosis Mimicking Meningioma.
Open Forum Infect Dis 2020;
7:ofaa170. [PMID:
32529000 PMCID:
PMC7273183 DOI:
10.1093/ofid/ofaa170]
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Abstract
Orbital actinomycosis is an unusual clinical manifestation of orbital infection caused by Actinomyces species. Herein we report a case of orbital actinomycosis in a 67-year-old woman with recurrent swelling and erythema around her left eye with an orbital mass initially thought to be a meningioma.
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