Chest Imaging of a Rare Case of Cat-scratch Disease in a 2-years-old Baby

Overview

Journal Acta Biomed

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2019 Jan 19

PMID 30657130

Citations 2

Authors

Enrica Rossi

Anna Perrone

Ubaldo Bongini

Antonina Marta Cangelosi

Sara Sollai

Donatella Narese

Claudio Defilippi

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Abstract

Cat-scratch disease (CSD) is usually a self-limiting infection that in the majority of cases occurs as lymphadenitis in children who have been scratched or bitten by a cat. Rarely, Bartonella henselae is cause of fever of unknown origin (FUO), with dissemination to various organs, mimicking an inflammatory rather than a lymphoproliferative disease. This manuscript will present a case of thoracic manifestations of CSD in an immunocompetent 2-years baby without history of cat contact, with fever of unknown origin, investigated by chest CT and MRI.

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