Fine needle aspiration cytology of tubercular epididymitis and epididymo-orchitis.

Objective: To study the role of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and ancillary studies in the diagnosis of tubercular epididymitis or epididymo-orchitis.

Study Design: Forty patients with tubercular epididymitis or epididymoorchitis diagnosed on FNAC underwent a detailed clinical workup, imaging and microbiologic studies before being started on antitubercular treatment (ATT). One patient underwent orchiectomy.

Fine needle aspiration of lymphadenopathy in visceral leishmaniasis.

Objective: To illustrate the cytomorphologic features of Leishmania lymphadenitis associated with visceral leishmaniasis (V/L) and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) and to highlight the fact that Leishmania lymphadenitis must he included in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with lymphadenopathy, particularly in areas endemic for the disease.

Study Design: Fine needle aspiration (FNA) was routinely done in 21 cases of lymphadenopathy in VL (18 cases) and PKDL (3 cases), and the detailed cytomorphologic features were correlated with the respective histopathologic findings.

Results: Amastigote forms of Leishman-Donovan (LD) bodies were seen in 19 cases both intracellularly, in histiocytes and multinucleate giant cells, and extracellularly.