Fine-needle aspiration of axillary swelling: Cytodiagnosis of an unusual presentation of filariasis

Lymphatic filariasis is a major public health problem in tropical and subtropical countries. Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is not routinely used for its identification. However, it has been detected incidentally, while doing FNAC for the evaluation of other lesions. We describe a presentati...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Deepika, Gupta, Prajwala, Bhardwaj, Minakshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6909590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31897083
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/cytojournal.cytojournal_17_19
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description Lymphatic filariasis is a major public health problem in tropical and subtropical countries. Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is not routinely used for its identification. However, it has been detected incidentally, while doing FNAC for the evaluation of other lesions. We describe a presentation of occult filariasis with microfilariae (mf) in an isolated axillary swelling wherein FNAC was helpful in establishing the diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-69095902020-01-02 Fine-needle aspiration of axillary swelling: Cytodiagnosis of an unusual presentation of filariasis Gupta, Deepika Gupta, Prajwala Bhardwaj, Minakshi Cytojournal Case Report Lymphatic filariasis is a major public health problem in tropical and subtropical countries. Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is not routinely used for its identification. However, it has been detected incidentally, while doing FNAC for the evaluation of other lesions. We describe a presentation of occult filariasis with microfilariae (mf) in an isolated axillary swelling wherein FNAC was helpful in establishing the diagnosis. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6909590/ /pubmed/31897083 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/cytojournal.cytojournal_17_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Gupta, et al.; Licensee Cytopathology Foundation Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Fine-needle aspiration of axillary swelling: Cytodiagnosis of an unusual presentation of filariasis
title_full Fine-needle aspiration of axillary swelling: Cytodiagnosis of an unusual presentation of filariasis
title_fullStr Fine-needle aspiration of axillary swelling: Cytodiagnosis of an unusual presentation of filariasis
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title_short Fine-needle aspiration of axillary swelling: Cytodiagnosis of an unusual presentation of filariasis
title_sort fine-needle aspiration of axillary swelling: cytodiagnosis of an unusual presentation of filariasis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6909590/
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