Artículo
Infección por Bartonella henselae: utilidad de las imágenes en el diagnóstico y seguimiento.
Fecha
2017Registro en:
Rev Chilena Infectol. 2017 Aug;34(4):410-412
Autor
Tapia, Fernanda
Rosas, Reinaldo
Schiappacasse, Giancarlo
Thompson, Luis
Institución
Resumen
Bartonella henselae infection is a frequent zoonosis from the domestic cat. It is presented with regional lymphadenitis in the majority of cases. Searching and characterization of lymph nodes by diagnostic imaging can be useful in the differential diagnosis approach, with a clear advantage, because it is a noninvasive method. Currently, new diagnostic imaging techniques improves the quality of screening and characterization of adenopathies, such is the case of PET/CT, which allows a better evaluation of hypermetabolic lymph nodes, without considering the individual growth of each lymph node. In this article, three cases of cat scratch diseases serology and their respective imaging findings are reviewed.