Leishmania

Lymph nodes - not lymphoma
Infectious / parasitic disorders
Leishmania

Topic Completed: 1 July 2013

Revised: 4 July 2019, last major update July 2013

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Definition / general

Parasites may continue in lymph nodes after clinical cure (J Infect 2003;47:77)

Case reports

8 year old boy with atypical presentation with hepatitis and adenopathy in disseminated disease (Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2006;100:79)

Microscopic (histologic) description

Granulomas with abundant plasma cells, focal fibrosis, variable necrosis, leishmanian amastigotes (by immunostain, Am J Clin Pathol 1994;102:11)

Microscopic (histologic) images

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Adrenal gland

Liver

Small bowel

Site unknown

Cytology description

Polymorphous lymphocytes, histiocytes, plasma cells, giant cells and tingible body macrophages
Amastigote forms within histiocytes and multinucleated giant cells and extracellularly (Acta Cytol 2005;49:286)

Electron microscopy images

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Amastigote of Leishmania