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It can affect multiple organs of the body and cause disseminated infection, among which most occurs in the lung, secondly in the nervous system, soft tissues, rare in the spinal cord and pituitary. No case has been reported involving lung, spinal cord, skin and pituitary gland at the same time.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We report a 55-year-old female with <jats:italic>Nocardia<\/jats:italic> infection involving the lung, skin, spinal cord, and pituitary gland. The patient underwent a full set of imaging examinations and showed typical imaging findings. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed multiple nodules with cavities in the lungs. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the vertebral body showed abnormal signal of the entire spinal cord with cavity formation and ring enhancement. The subcutaneous nodules of the abdomen were punctured under ultrasound. Through the etiological tissue culture of subcutaneous nodules and the second generation sequencing of cerebrospinal fluid, the diagnosis was finally confirmed.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Disseminated <jats:italic>Nocardiosis<\/jats:italic> is an uncommon disease. This article will report a rare case of disseminated <jats:italic>Nocardiosis<\/jats:italic> simultaneously involving the lung, spinal cord, subcutaneous soft tissue and pituitary gland, especially with neuropathy as the initial symptom. Imaging is helpful for the early diagnosis of the disease and pathological and microbiological examinations are helpful for its confirming.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12879-021-06905-y","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,7]],"date-time":"2021-12-07T10:02:42Z","timestamp":1638871362000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Disseminated Nocardia farcinica involves the spinal cord: a case report and review of the literature"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Jing","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaoran","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8539-7224","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yu-Chen","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"6905_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"286","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2164-14-286","volume":"14","author":"A Zoropogui","year":"2013","unstructured":"Zoropogui A, Pujic P, Normand P, Barbe V, Belli P, Graindorge A, et al. 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