Greater auricular nerve masquerading as lymph node

Hansen's disease is on the verge of being eliminated from India and often missed by clinicians due to low index of suspicion. We present an unusual case in which greater auricular nerve thickening masqueraded as enlarged lymph node in the neck. The patient was referred for fine needle aspiratio...

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Autores principales: Saxena, Shilpi, Deb, Prabal, Nijhawan, Vijay Shrawan, Kharayat, Veena, Verma, Rajesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4520043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26229249
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.160567
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author Saxena, Shilpi
Deb, Prabal
Nijhawan, Vijay Shrawan
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description Hansen's disease is on the verge of being eliminated from India and often missed by clinicians due to low index of suspicion. We present an unusual case in which greater auricular nerve thickening masqueraded as enlarged lymph node in the neck. The patient was referred for fine needle aspiration cytology, which revealed epithelioid cell granulomas suggestive of Hansen's disease. Further clinical examination and investigations including the skin biopsy confirmed the disease, highlighting the role of pathologist in the management of such unusual presentation of a common disease.
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spelling pubmed-45200432015-07-30 Greater auricular nerve masquerading as lymph node Saxena, Shilpi Deb, Prabal Nijhawan, Vijay Shrawan Kharayat, Veena Verma, Rajesh J Cytol Case Report Hansen's disease is on the verge of being eliminated from India and often missed by clinicians due to low index of suspicion. We present an unusual case in which greater auricular nerve thickening masqueraded as enlarged lymph node in the neck. The patient was referred for fine needle aspiration cytology, which revealed epithelioid cell granulomas suggestive of Hansen's disease. Further clinical examination and investigations including the skin biopsy confirmed the disease, highlighting the role of pathologist in the management of such unusual presentation of a common disease. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4520043/ /pubmed/26229249 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.160567 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.
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