Treatment patterns of pediatric nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) cervical lymphadenitis as reported by nationwide surveys of pediatric otolaryngology and infectious disease societies

<p>Leprosy a major global health problem, especially in the developing world, is an infectious disease caused by <em>Mycobacterium leprae</em>. Leprosy has a predilection to with cooler areas of the body. Lepromatous leprosy presents with varied manifestations like nodules, cervical lymphadenitis, hyperpigmented patches and other presentations which can mimic various other diseases and pose a diagnostic challenge in endemic areas. We report a case presenting with nodular infiltration of the nose mimicking rhinophyma who presented with faint reddish swelling over the nose which progressed to nodular infiltration. There was bilateral symmetrical thickening of nerves following which diagnosis was confirmed by slit skin smear and the patient was started on multibacillary multidrug therapy. The importance of rightly diagnosing cases presenting as nodules that mimic rhinophyma is important because of the infectious nature of the disease which pose a threat to the community.</p>

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Diagnosis and Treatment of Cervical Lymphadenitis from a Standpoint of Infectious Disease Specialists

Infection and Chemotherapy ◽

10.3947/ic.2008.40.2.76 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 76 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Joon Young Song ◽

Hee Jin Cheong

Keyword(s):

Infectious Disease ◽

Diagnosis And Treatment ◽

Cervical Lymphadenitis ◽

Infectious Disease Specialists

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Tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis in developing countries: A challenging infectious disease

Vaccine ◽

10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.07.042 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 27 (42) ◽

pp. 5731 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Aamir Shahzad ◽

Gottfried Köhler

Keyword(s):

Infectious Disease ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Cervical Lymphadenitis

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Tissue section lifting for electron microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100081292 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 86-87

Author(s):

Adrian F. van Dellen

Keyword(s):

Infectious Disease ◽

Electron Microscopy ◽

Tissue Culture ◽

Organ System ◽

Surrounding Tissue ◽

Paraffin Sections ◽

Surface Areas ◽

Specific Determination ◽

High Degree ◽

Accuracy And Repeatability

The morphologic pathologist may require information on the ultrastructure of a non-specific lesion seen under the light microscope before he can make a specific determination. Such lesions, when caused by infectious disease agents, may be sparsely distributed in any organ system. Tissue culture systems, too, may only have widely dispersed foci suitable for ultrastructural study. In these situations, when only a few, small foci in large tissue areas are useful for electron microscopy, it is advantageous to employ a methodology which rapidly selects a single tissue focus that is expected to yield beneficial ultrastructural data from amongst the surrounding tissue. This is in essence what "LIFTING" accomplishes. We have developed LIFTING to a high degree of accuracy and repeatability utilizing the Microlift (Fig 1), and have successfully applied it to tissue culture monolayers, histologic paraffin sections, and tissue blocks with large surface areas that had been initially fixed for either light or electron microscopy.

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