Publication: Muscle Abscess due to Salmonella Enterica
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2013-07-01
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Akkoyunlu, YASEMİN
CEYLAN, Bahadir
IRAZ, Meryem
Elmadag, NUH MEHMET
ASLAN, Turan
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Non typhoidal Salmonellae spp. causes clinical symptoms especially in neonates, infants, aged and immunocompromised patients.
Hematogenous dissemination may occur in complicated cases whereas the formation of abscess is rare. A 61-year old woman presented to
our hospital with pain and a mass in her left arm, without fever and leukocytosis. She was using methotrexate, corticosteroids and quinine
for rheumatoid arthritis. She had a history of cervix cancer and was given radiotherapy and chemotherapy 3 years ago. Upon physical
examination and magnetic resonance imaging, the mass was considered as an abscess and was surgically drained. Salmonella enterica
spp. enterica was yielded in the culture of the drainage material. Ceftriaxon 2g/day was started intramuscularly and continued for 4
weeks. Salmonellosis is usually a self-limited disease, generally restricted to gastrointestinal tract and acquired following food poisoning.
Management of Salmonella abscess requires a combination of antibiotherapy, surgical drainage and eradication of primary foci
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Akkoyunlu Y., CEYLAN B., IRAZ M., Elmadag N. M. , ASLAN T., -Muscle Abscess due to Salmonella Enterica-, IRANIAN RED CRESCENT MEDICAL JOURNAL, cilt.15, ss.605-607, 2013