Leishmania life cycle images in the cutaneous cytologic smear of an immunocompetent patient

Abstract

Cutaneous leishmania life cycle images on cytology smears are very rare. We report herein a gallery of cytologic images from a case of sporadic cutaneous leishmaniasis in a 61 year old man presenting with ulcerative skin lesion.

Keywords

• Cutaneous leishmaniasis; leishmania; sporadic leishmaniasis; scrape cytology