Leishmaniasis

A parasitic disease caused by different species of the genus <i>Leishmania</i>, transmitted through the bite of hematophagous female phlebotomine sand flies. The clinical spectrum ranges from asymptomatic to clinically overt disease which can remain localized to the skin or disseminate to the upper oral and respiratory mucous membranes or throughout the reticulo-endothelial system. Three main clinical syndromes have been described: visceral (or Kala-Azar; with fever, weight loss, hepatosplenomegaly), cutaneous, and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (cutaneous or mucocutaneous ulceration).

Histiocytosis

An excessive number of histiocytes (tissue macrophages).


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PMID (PMCID)
25150548
(4147878)
 FEMALE Child
A child presenting with tuberculous spondylitis in a single third cervical vertebra: a case report.
Senanayake MP, Karunaratne I.
J Med Case Rep. 2014;8:284.
An incidental finding of a calcified hepatic nodule when evaluating for multifocal histiocytosis was presumed to be tuberculous because schistosomiasis and visceral leishmaniasis were extremely rare in her country of residence, Sri Lanka.
8298657
 MALE Adult
Visceral leishmaniasis: II. Histiocyte ultrastructure in bone marrow associated with low level of parasitaemia and mimicking malignant histiocytosis.
el-Shoura S, Sheikha A, al-Janadi M, Morad N, Khan AR, Westmuckett A.
Appl Parasitol. 1993;34(4):259-64.
The ultrastructural features of histiocytes in the bone marrow (BM) were studied in a febrile, splenomegalic and pancytopenic Sudanese patient who was diagnosed by one of us as visceral leishmaniasis (VL) associated with low level of parasitaemia and mimicking malignant histiocytosis (MH).
6719046
 MALE
Cold agglutinin syndrome and hemophagocytosis in systemic leishmaniasis.
Kokkini G, Vrionis G, Liosis G, Papaefstathiou J.
Scand J Haematol. 1984;32(4):441-5.
Visceral leishmaniasis must be considered in the differential diagnosis of diseases with histiocytosis.
216478
 MALE Adult
Systemic leishmaniasis mimicking malignant histiocytosis.
Matzner Y, Behar A, Beeri E, Gunders AE, Hershko C.
Cancer. 1979;43(1):398-402.
In view of the similarity in clinical and histologic appearance, visceral leishmaniasis must be considered in the differential diagnosis of malignant histiocytosis in geographic areas where leishmaniasis is still endemic.
216478
 MALE Adult
Systemic leishmaniasis mimicking malignant histiocytosis.
Matzner Y, Behar A, Beeri E, Gunders AE, Hershko C.
Cancer. 1979;43(1):398-402.
Systemic leishmaniasis mimicking malignant histiocytosis.
216478
 MALE Adult
Systemic leishmaniasis mimicking malignant histiocytosis.
Matzner Y, Behar A, Beeri E, Gunders AE, Hershko C.
Cancer. 1979;43(1):398-402.
In view of the similarity in clinical and histologic appearance, visceral leishmaniasis must be considered in the differential diagnosis of malignant histiocytosis in geographic areas where leishmaniasis is still endemic.