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BMC Gastroenterology BioMed Central Case report Open Access A rare case of ascending colon actinomycosis mimicking cancer 1 1 2 1 Dimitrios Filippou* , Ioannis Psimitis , Diamanto Zizi and Spiros Rizos Address: 1Department of Surgery, GP Hospital of Piraeus Tzanion, Tzani Afentouli str, Pireaus-Athens, Greece and 2Department of Pathology, GP Hospital of Piraeus Tzanion, Tzani Afentouli str, Pireaus-Athens, Greece Email: Dimitrios Filippou* - d_filippou@; Ioannis Psimitis - webdocgr@; Diamanto Zizi - webdocgr@; Spiros Rizos - srizos@otenet.gr * Corresponding author Published: 04 January 2005 Received: 19 July 2004 Accepted: 04 January 2005 BMC Gastroenterology 2005, 5:1 doi:10.1186/1471-230X-5-1 This article is available from: /1471-230X/5/1 © 2005 Filippou et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Actinomycosis is a rare inflammatory disease caused by an anaerobic bacterium that can rarely affect the large intestine. Case presentation: We present a rare case of a cecum and ascending colon actinomycosis in a 72 years old woman, mimicking clinically a malignant inflammatory tumor of the right colon. The pat