Actinomycosis mimicking recurrent carcinoma after Whipple's operation

World J Gastroenterol. 2005 Mar 21;11(11):1722-4. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i11.1722.

Abstract

Actinomycosis is a rare, chronic, spreading, suppurative, granulomatous and fibrosing infection. Actinomyces are normal inhabitants of the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract. They rarely cause disease and are seldom reported as pathogens. Herein, we reported on a 69-year-old male patient who had undergone Whipple's operation due to ampulla Vater carcinoma, and became infected with actinomycosis at the pancreaticojejunostomy, which mimicked a recurrent malignancy. He was treated with radical resection of the mass at the pancreaticojejunostomy and had an uneventful postoperative course.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Actinomycosis / diagnosis*
  • Aged
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Intestinal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Intestinal Neoplasms / surgery
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / diagnosis*
  • Pancreaticojejunostomy
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnosis*
  • Postoperative Complications / microbiology