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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1405-0099</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Cirujano general]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Cir. gen]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1405-0099</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Mexicana de Cirugía General A.C.]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S1405-00992024000300182</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.35366/118729</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[El gran imitador de tumores; Actinomyces cecal diagnosticado como tumor cecal]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The great tumor imitator; Actinomyces cecal a case diagnosed as cecal tumor]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Medina López]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jorge Luis]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aaf"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital de la Mujer SSA Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Morelia Michoacán]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2024</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2024</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>46</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>182</fpage>
<lpage>186</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1405-00992024000300182&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1405-00992024000300182&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1405-00992024000300182&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: La actinomicosis abdominal es una infección supurativa causada por especies de Actinomyces, comúnmente mal diagnosticadas como crecimiento carcinomatoso. La infección tiene la tendencia de infiltrar tejidos adyacentes y es raramente confinado a un solo órgano. Presentamos un caso de una femenina de 66 años con una historia de diabetes e hipertensión arterial, que acude al servicio de urgencias por dolor abdominal en fosa iliaca derecha de más de seis meses de evolución pero que se agudizo hacia una semana con presencia de una tumoración palpable en fosa iliaca derecha, la tomografía reporta tumor vs apendicitis aguda. Se le realizo hemicolectomía derecha con principios oncológicos y el estudio del espécimen reporto Actinomyces invasor cecal. El diagnostico preoperatorio es difícil para diferenciar entre patología benigna se debería considerar enfermedades inflamatorias del intestino como diagnóstico diferencial.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: Abdominal actinomycosisis a chronic suppurative infection caused by Actinomyces species commonly misdiagnosed as carcinomatous growth. The infection has a tendency to infiltrate adjacent tissues and is therefore rarely confined to a single organ. Herein a 66 years old female patient with a history of diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure who goes the emergency department for abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant, more than six months of evolution but with acute pain a week ago, with a palpable tumor in the right lower quadrant and the tomography reports tumor vs appendicitis. Hemicolectomy is performed with oncological principles and the study of the specimen reveal cecals invasive Actinomyces. Preoperative diagnosis is difficult to differentiate benign pathology, should be considered inflammatory intestinal disease as a differential diagnosis.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[actinomicosis abdominal]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[diagnóstico diferencial]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[dolor abdominal agudo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[tumor]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[infección]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[abdominal actinomycosisis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[differential diagnosis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[acute abdominal pain]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[tumor]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[infection]]></kwd>
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