Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài:Extensive chronic xanthogranulomatous intra-abdominal inflammation due to Mycoplasma hominis mimicking a malignancy: a case report | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL Sr CASE REPORTS Open Access Case report Extensive chronic xanthogranulomatous intra-abdominal inflammation due to Mycoplasma hominis mimicking a malignancy a case report Luc Biedermann1 Dominik J Schaer1 Matteo Montani2 Rudolf Speich1 and Beat Mullhaupt3 Addresses Department of Internal Medicine University Hospital Zurich Raemistrasse 100 CH-8091 Zurich Switzerland 2Department of Clinical Pathology University Hospital Zurich Schmelzbergstrasse 12 CH-8091 Zurich Switzerland 3Swiss HPB Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Center and Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology University Hospital Zurich Raemistrasse 100 CH-8091 Zurich Switzerland Email LB - DJS - MM - RS - BM - Corresponding author Received 29 October 2008 Accepted 8 May 2009 Published II September 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 9211 doi 1752-1947-3-9211 This article is available from http jmedicalcasereports article view 9211 2009 Biedermann et al. licensee Cases Network Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction While infectious peritonitis is a common occurrence in patients with liver cirrhosis Mycoplasma is rarely identified as a causative agent. Case presentation We report the case of a 43-year-old Caucasian woman presenting with an extensive abdominal conglomerate tumor mimicking malignancy. A histologic specimen showed a xanthogranulomatous inflammation. Subsequently Mycoplasma hominis was identified as the specific causative infectious agent using a broad-range eubacterial polymerase chain reaction. To the best of our knowledge this is the first reported case of an intra-abdominal .
