Actinomycotic osteomyelitis of the cranial vault presenting with headache: an unusual presentation

A case of left parietal calvarial actinomycotic osteomyelitis in a young woman is described. She had no predisposing illnesses. She had delivered a live child at term and presented in the puerperal period. No extracranial focus of infection was identified. She responded well to a combination of surg...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMJ case reports 2014-11, Vol.2014, p.bcr2013202501
Hauptverfasser:	Roopesh Kumar, V R, Madhugiri, Venkatesh S, Gundamaneni, Sudheer Kumar, Verma, Surendra Kumar
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Actinomycosis - diagnosis Actinomycosis - drug therapy Actinomycosis - surgery Adult Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Asia Bacterial infections Diagnosis, Differential Drainage Epidural Female Headache - etiology Headaches Humans Indian Sub-Continent Infections Migraine Osteomyelitis - diagnosis Osteomyelitis - drug therapy Osteomyelitis - surgery Penicillin Puerperal Infection - diagnosis Puerperal Infection - drug therapy Rare Disease Skull - diagnostic imaging Skull - microbiology Skull - pathology Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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