introduction: castleman's disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder which may be confused with other causes of lymphadenopathy. case report: here we report a case of unicentric castleman's disease presenting with cervical lymphadenopathy. the patient was treated with complete surgical excision of lesion and was disease free at the time of reporting this article. this case has bee...

visceral leishmaniasis is a protozoar disease caused by l.donovani. transmission to humans (incidental host) occurs via insect bite and the phlebotomous (female sand-fly) transmits the disease. common presentations of the disease include hepatomegaly and splenomegaly, but fever, chills and night sweats may be part of the disease's symptoms. lymphadenopathy without systemic manifestations i...

conclusions to our knowledge, kd presenting with unilateral conjunctivitis and oculoglandular syndrome is not reported to date. g iven that delay in diagnosis and treatment of kd can cause serious cardiac complications, the diagnosis of kawasaki disease should be considered in such cases. case presentation in this report, we describe a 12-year-old boy presenting with prolonged fever, unilateral...

sarcoidosis is a chronic multisystem disorder of unknown etiology. all parts of the body can be affected but the organ most frequently affected is the lung. otolaryngologic manifestations occur in 20% to 40% of cases of sarcoidosis and the spectrum of lesions that may come under the purview of otolaryngologist is broad. in this case report a patient is presented with large cervical lymphadenopa...

background: lymphadenitis is a common form of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. as in peripheral health centers, the facili­ties for histopathology and culture are lacking, material obtained by fine needle aspiration (fna) in suspected cases of tubercu­lar lymphadenitis (tbl) cid fast bacilli (afb) by ziehl neelson method as every designated micros­copy centre under revised national tuberculosis co...

clinically apparent cervical lymphadenopathy has been found at the initial presentation in 23 to 56 % of cases of papillary thyroid carcinoma. here we report tuberculous lymphadenitis mimicking metastatic lymph nodes from papillary thyroid carcinoma and suggest that tuberculosis apart from metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma should also be considered in the etiology of enlarged lymph node...