Legionella lymphadenitis in immunocompetent adult: Case report.

Introduction: Extrapulmonary legionella disease is rare and occasionally reported in immunocompromised patients; it includes lymphadenitis, panniculitis, hepatitis, atrio-ventricular block, arthritis, prosthetic valve endocarditis and myocarditis. In this article, we report a rare case of legionella suppurative lymphadenitis in an immunocompetent patient.

Case: 53-year-old female patient from the Philippines, non-smoker, previously healthy who presented to our facility for chills and respiratory distress following a course of corticosteroid intake.

The slow-pull capillary technique increases the quality of endoscopic ultrasound fine needle biopsy samples in solid pancreatic lesions.

Introduction: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided sampling is used routinely for the diagnosis of solid pancreatic masses. We aimed to compare the standard suction technique with the recently described 'slow-pull' technique.

Patients And Methods: Patients with a solid pancreatic mass of more than 2 cm undergoing endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy with the same endoscopist using a 22 G core biopsy needle were included in the study.