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Improving diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis by combination of cytomorphology and MPT64 immunostaining on cell blocks from the fine needle aspirates

BACKGROUND: Extra pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) constitutes 18% of all tuberculosis (TB) cases and tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBL) constitutes 20–40% of EPTB. Diagnosis of TBL is challenging because of the paucibacillary nature of the disease. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the diagnostic potential of a...

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Autores principales: Ulain, Noor, Ali, Asif, Khan, Momin, Ullah, Zakir, Shaheen, Lubna, Shareef, Naveed, Yasir, Muhammad, Mustafa, Tehmina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9560136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36228032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276064