Ocular Actinomycosis Mimicking Meningioma

Takaaki Kobayashi; Bradley Ford; Nobuhiro Fujita; A Ben Appenheimer

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa170

Ocular Actinomycosis Mimicking Meningioma

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 May 19;7(6):ofaa170. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa170. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Authors

Takaaki Kobayashi¹, Bradley Ford², Nobuhiro Fujita³, A Ben Appenheimer¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
² Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
³ Department of Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

Abstract

Orbital actinomycosis is an unusual clinical manifestation of orbital infection caused by Actinomyces species. Herein we report a case of orbital actinomycosis in a 67-year-old woman with recurrent swelling and erythema around her left eye with an orbital mass initially thought to be a meningioma.

Keywords: meningioma; ocular actinomycosis.

Publication types

Case Reports