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Delayed diagnosis of ‘Bancroftian filarial pleural effusion’

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Akhtar S., Gumashta R., Gumashta J.

Progress in Health Sciences

2012

vol. 2

issue 2

207-210

The authors report an unusual case of 60 year old male, who got admitted in a tertiary health care institute in Maharashtra (India) for chest pain and breathlessness and was provisionally diagnosed as ‘pleural effusion with suspicion of malignancy’. However, the pleural fluid cytology, conducted later, assisted in diagnosing this case as ‘Pleural Effusion due to Bancroftian Filariasis’. The patient responded well with oral medication of diethyl carbamazine within a couple of days. The patient could not be followed up as he left the hospital against medical advice

Cytodiagnosis of filarial infection on a non healing ulcer: an unusual presentation and review of literature

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Akhtar S., Gumashta R., Pande S., Maimoon S., Mahore S.

Progress in Health Sciences

2012

vol. 2

issue 2

195-199

The authors report an unusual case of a 33-year-old Indian male adult, who sought treatment for skin infection, skin ulcer and oedema of leg for two years, but got no relief until he was incidentally diagnosed by scrape cytology for presence of microfilaria in leg ulcer, blood and pleural fluid. The patient was fully cured after receiving complete treatment for filariasis

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Delayed diagnosis of ‘Bancroftian filarial pleural effusion’

Cytodiagnosis of filarial infection on a non healing ulcer: an unusual presentation and review of literature