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==Cat-scratch disease==
==Cat-scratch disease==
*[[AKA]] ''Cat-scratch fever''.
*[[AKA]] ''cat scratch fever''.
===General===
{{Main|Cat scratch disease}}
*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.
 
===Clinical===
Features:<ref name=Ref_ILNP113>{{Ref ILNP|113}}</ref>
*Usually unilateral.
**May be disseminated in individuals with immune dysfunction.
*Contact with cats.
 
===Micrograph===
Features:<ref name=Ref_ILNP113>{{Ref ILNP|113}}</ref>
*Necrotizing granulomas with:
**Neutrophils present in microabscess (necrotic debris) - '''key feature'''.
***Microabscesses often described as "stellate" (star-shaped).
*+/-Multinucleated giant cells.
 
Notes:
*May involve capsule or perinodal tissue.
 
DDx of stellate abscess in lymph nodes - ''cat split'':<ref name=pmid>URL: [http://www.dermpathmd.com/mnemonics/mnemonics_dermatopathology.htm http://www.dermpathmd.com/mnemonics/mnemonics_dermatopathology.htm]. Accessed on: 23 September 2011.</ref>
*Cat-scratch disease.
*[[Sporotrichosis]].
*[[Lymphogranuloma venereum]].
*[[Tularemia]].
 
====Images====
www:
*[http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?case=386&n=1 Cat-scratch disease (webpathology.com)].
*[http://www.webpathology.com/image.asp?n=2&Case=386 Cat-scratch disease - high mag. (webpathology.com)]
<gallery>
Image:Cat_scratch_disease_-_very_low_mag.jpg | CSD - very low mag. - showing serpentine shaped microabscesses (WC)
Image:Cat_scratch_disease_-_low_mag.jpg | CSD - low mag. - showing serpentine shaped microabscesses (WC)
Image:Cat_scratch_disease_-b-_high_mag.jpg | CSD - high mag. - showing neutrophilic abscesses (WC)
</gallery>
 
===Stains===
*Warthin-Starry stain +ve.
 
===IHC===
*B. henselae IHC stain +ve - '''diagnostic'''.


==Toxoplasma lymphadenitis==
==Toxoplasma lymphadenitis==
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