Difference between revisions of "Lymph node pathology"

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===General===
===General===
*[[AKA]] ''Cat-scratch fever''.
*[[AKA]] ''Cat-scratch fever''.
*Infection caused by spirochete ''Bartonella henselae''.<ref name=pmid19332922>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Jerris | first1 = RC. | last2 = Regnery | first2 = RL. | title = Will the real agent of cat-scratch disease please stand up? | journal = Annu Rev Microbiol | volume = 50 | issue =  | pages = 707-25 | month =  | year = 1996 | doi = 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.707 | PMID = 8905096 }}</ref>
*Infection caused ''Bartonella henselae'',<ref name=pmid19332922>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Jerris | first1 = RC. | last2 = Regnery | first2 = RL. | title = Will the real agent of cat-scratch disease please stand up? | journal = Annu Rev Microbiol | volume = 50 | issue =  | pages = 707-25 | month =  | year = 1996 | doi = 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.707 | PMID = 8905096 }}</ref> a gram-negative bacilla (0.3-1.0 x 0.6-3.0 micrometers) in chains, clumps, or singular.<ref name=Ref_ILNP110>{{Ref ILNP|110}}</ref>
*Treatment: antibiotics.
*Treatment: antibiotics.
===Clinical===
Features:<ref name=Ref_ILNP113>{{Ref ILNP|113}}</ref>
*Usually unilateral.
**May be desseminated in individuals with immune dysfunction.
*Contact with cats.


===Micrograph===
===Micrograph===
Features:
Features:<ref name=Ref_ILNP113>{{Ref ILNP|113}}</ref>
*Palisading granulomas with neutrophils in the center.
*Necrotizing granulomas with:
**Neutrophils present in microabscess (necrotic debris) - '''key feature'''.
*+/-Multinucleated giant cells.
 
Notes:
*May involve capsule or perinodal tissue.


Stains:
Stains:
*Warthin-Starry stain.
*Warthin-Starry stain +ve.
*B. henselae IHC stain +ve.


Image(s):
Image(s):
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