Lymphadenopathy - An Unusual Clinical Feature of Kala-azar

Authors

  • Md Shafiqul Bari Assistant Professor of Medicine, Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College
  • Mirza Azizul Hoque Assistant Professor (Endocrinology), Dhaka Medical College,Dhaka.
  • KFM Ayaz Master of Biomedicine, MD 2nd part course student, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka
  • Afsana Begum Medicine Specialist, United Hospital.
  • Rubina Yasmin Junior Consultant, Department of Medicine, Shahid Suhrawardi Hospital.
  • Md Billal Alam Associate Professor of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College.
  • HAM Nazmul Ahasan Professor of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/jom.v9i2.1441

Abstract

We report a 25-year-old man presenting with fever and weight loss for the six months along with anemia, hepatosplenomegaly and axillary lymphadenopathy. Laboratory investigations showed pancytopenia. Bone marrow and splenic aspiration was inconclusive, lymph node biopsy revealed LD bodies thus confirming visceral leishmaniasis. The case high lights the need of accepting lymph nodes as a site for diagnosing kala-azar and kala-azar lymphadenopathy is not as elusive as we think.   

DOI = 10.3329/jom.v9i2.1441

J MEDICINE 2008; 9 : 108-109

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Bari, M. S., Hoque, M. A., Ayaz, K., Begum, A., Yasmin, R., Alam, M. B., & Ahasan, H. N. (2008). Lymphadenopathy - An Unusual Clinical Feature of Kala-azar. Journal of Medicine, 9(2), 108–109. https://doi.org/10.3329/jom.v9i2.1441

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2008)

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Case Reports

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