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Definition / general | Case reports | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) images | Cytology description | Electron microscopy imagesCite this page: DePond W. Leishmania. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/lymphnodesleishmania.html. Accessed July 4th, 2020.
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
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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
