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Query: UMLS:C0149520 (acute cholecystitis)
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The clinical features of infection in patients from whom Streptococcus milleri was isolated were analysed in an attempt to determine the clinical significance of this organism. During a four-year period Streptococcus milleri was isolated from 232 hospitalized patients. In 44 patients Streptococcus milleri was isolated in pure culture, in 45 patients together with obligate anaerobes, and in 143 patients together with aerobes with or without anaerobes. The 82 patients in whom isolation of Streptococcus milleri was considered significant had the following infections: bacteremia (8 patients), brain abscess (2), pleural empyema (9), lung abscess (1), maxillary sinusitis (7), intra-abdominal abscess (53), infection of pacemaker (1) and infection of vascular graft (1). The 150 patients in whom isolation of Streptococcus milleri was considered of questionable significance had the following: upper respiratory tract infection (12 patients), lower respiratory tract infection (6), acute cholecystitis (8), soft tissue abscess, cellulitis and surgical wound infections (83), bone and joint infections (14), genital infection (25) and miscellaneous infections (2). The overall incidence of infection with Streptococcus milleri was five cases per 1000 admissions. The study showed that Streptococcus milleri is of clinical significance not only in suppurative infections, as previously reported, but also in acute maxillary sinusitis and infection of implant material.
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PMID:Clinical significance of Streptococcus milleri. 404 55

A case of primary lymphoma of the gallbladder is described which is rare in the medical literature. A 76 year old man presented with acute cholecystitis and septicaemia. Investigation showed a lung abscess and a gallbladder mass. The mass was thought to be an empyema and cholecystostomy was performed. Biopsy of the gallbladder wall showed high-grade B cell lymphoma. The patient unfortunately succumbed to overwhelming septicaemia in the postoperative period. Postmortem examination confirmed primary lymphoma of the gallbladder without dissemination.
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PMID:Primary lymphoma of the gallbladder. 841 51