Open AccessReply to comment on “Intra-abdominal actinomycosis resulting in a difficult-to-diagnose intraperitoneal mass: A case study report”
Author(s) -
Naoto Tsujimura,
Hiroyoshi Takemoto
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of surgery case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.232
H-Index - 19
ISSN - 2210-2612
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijscr.2018.07.015
Subject(s) - medicine , actinomycosis , abdominal mass , general surgery , surgery
An isolation method was not used in this experiment. Histopathological specimens (paraffin block) were treated with Grosscot staining to diagnose Actinomycosis morphologically. Clinically, majority of Actinomycosis are caused by Actinomyces israelii. With that premise, we concluded the pathogen to be Actinomyces israelii. Due to the lack of samples, we could not perform any tests on the specimen.
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