Microfilaria in a patient of achylous hematuria: A rare finding in urine cytology

Filariasis is a widespread public health problem seen commonly in tropical countries. Microfilariae have been reported in aspiration smears from various sites. However, it is very rare to detect these organisms in voided centrifuged urine cytology. We, report this rare finding in a 25-year-old patie...

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Autores principales: Ahuja, Arvind, Das, Presenjit, Durgapal, Prashant, Saini, Ashish, Dogra, Prem Nath, Mathur, Sandeep R, Iyer, Venkateswaran K
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3391801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22787301
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.97163
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author Ahuja, Arvind
Das, Presenjit
Durgapal, Prashant
Saini, Ashish
Dogra, Prem Nath
Mathur, Sandeep R
Iyer, Venkateswaran K
author_facet Ahuja, Arvind
Das, Presenjit
Durgapal, Prashant
Saini, Ashish
Dogra, Prem Nath
Mathur, Sandeep R
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description Filariasis is a widespread public health problem seen commonly in tropical countries. Microfilariae have been reported in aspiration smears from various sites. However, it is very rare to detect these organisms in voided centrifuged urine cytology. We, report this rare finding in a 25-year-old patient who presented with achylous hematuria.
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spelling pubmed-33918012012-07-11 Microfilaria in a patient of achylous hematuria: A rare finding in urine cytology Ahuja, Arvind Das, Presenjit Durgapal, Prashant Saini, Ashish Dogra, Prem Nath Mathur, Sandeep R Iyer, Venkateswaran K J Cytol Case Report Filariasis is a widespread public health problem seen commonly in tropical countries. Microfilariae have been reported in aspiration smears from various sites. However, it is very rare to detect these organisms in voided centrifuged urine cytology. We, report this rare finding in a 25-year-old patient who presented with achylous hematuria. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3391801/ /pubmed/22787301 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.97163 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Cytology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Ahuja, Arvind
Das, Presenjit
Durgapal, Prashant
Saini, Ashish
Dogra, Prem Nath
Mathur, Sandeep R
Iyer, Venkateswaran K
Microfilaria in a patient of achylous hematuria: A rare finding in urine cytology
title Microfilaria in a patient of achylous hematuria: A rare finding in urine cytology
title_full Microfilaria in a patient of achylous hematuria: A rare finding in urine cytology
title_fullStr Microfilaria in a patient of achylous hematuria: A rare finding in urine cytology
title_full_unstemmed Microfilaria in a patient of achylous hematuria: A rare finding in urine cytology
title_short Microfilaria in a patient of achylous hematuria: A rare finding in urine cytology
title_sort microfilaria in a patient of achylous hematuria: a rare finding in urine cytology
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3391801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22787301
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.97163
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