Leishmania life cycle images in the cutaneous cytologic smear of an immunocompetent patient.

J Cytol

Surgical Pathology Unit, Oncology and Neurosciences Department, Section of Cytopathology "G. d'Annunzio", University of Chieti-Pescara, Via Dei Vestini, Chieti, Italy.

Published: January 2010

Cutaneous leishmania life cycle images on cytology smears are very rare. We report herein a gallery of cytologic images from a case of sporadic cutaneous leishmaniasis in a 61 year old man presenting with ulcerative skin lesion.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964852PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.66695DOI Listing

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