[Ovarian actinomycosis]

Behrendt N, N Behrendt, Eriksen L, L Eriksen
Ugeskrift for laeger · 1994 · vol. 156(51) , pp. 7700–2 · PMID:7839538
Case report OA: closed
View on PubMed
⚙ AI-generated summary by gemini-2.5-flash-lite, 2026-08-09 ⓘ

This report describes a case of ovarian actinomycosis caused by Actinomyces Israelii in a 39-year-old woman with a history of IUD use and hysterectomy.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

A case of adnexal tumor caused by Actinomyces Israelii is reported. The patient was a 39 year-old woman admitted because of persistent fever and a palpable tumor in the right fossa. She had used an IUD for 11 years. Nine months before admission a hysterectomy had been performed due to uterine fibromyomas.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

MeSH descriptors

Actinomycosis Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Abdominal Abscess Abdominal Abscess Abdominal Abscess Abdominal Abscess Actinomycosis Actinomycosis Adult Female Humans Ovary Ovary Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Citation neighborhood (no data yet)

We don't have any in-corpus citations linked to this paper yet. The paper's references may be in our DB but unresolved to ``paper_id`` (resolution happens at ingest when the cited DOI matches a row we already have). Run the cross-source citation reconcile pass to retry.

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-10-04T09:26:46.659050+00:00
pubmed
last seen: 2026-10-08T21:59:07.256998+00:00