Clinical Study
Visceral Leishmaniasis with Associated Common, Uncommon, and Atypical Morphological Features on Bone Marrow Aspirate Cytology in Nonendemic Region
Table 3
Uncommon hematological and bone marrow findings observed in leishmaniasis.
| | Number of cases | Percentage of cases (%) |
| Peripheral blood smear | | | Monocytosis | 05 | 18.5 | Nucleated RBC | 06 | 22.2 | Bone marrow aspirate cytology | | | Plasma cells with abnormal inclusions | 04 | 14.8 | Dysmyelopoiesis | 01 | 3.7 | Eosinophilia | 04 | 14.8 | Free floating cytoplasm | | | With LD bodies | 01 | 3.7 | Without LD bodies | 04 | 14.8 | Intracellular LD bodies in cells other than histiocytes (polymorph, metamyelocyte, and megakaryocyte) | 02 | 7.4 | Bone marrow biopsy (total 19 cases) | | | Necrosis | 02 | 10.5 | Granuloma | 01 | 5.2 |
|
|