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Kikuchi disease: FNAC smear showing crescentic histiocytes, plasmacytoid monocytes and extracellular (karyorrhectic) debris (H and E, x400)
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Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) showed crescentic histiocytes, plasmacytoid monocytes, extracellular (karyorrhectic) debris and necrosis and a diagnosis of Kikuchi's disease was made on cytological examination [Figures 1, 2 and 3a, b].
Kikuchi disease: FNAC smear showing predominately crescentic histiocytes, plasmacytoid monocytes and extracellular (karyorrhectic) debris (H and E, x400)
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Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) showed crescentic histiocytes, plasmacytoid monocytes, extracellular (karyorrhectic) debris and necrosis and a diagnosis of Kikuchi's disease was made on cytological examination [Figures 1, 2 and 3a, b].
(a) Shows plasmacytoid monocytes in the background of necrosis surrounded by karyorrhectic debris, (b) shows a characteristic crescentic histiocyte
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Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) showed crescentic histiocytes, plasmacytoid monocytes, extracellular (karyorrhectic) debris and necrosis and a diagnosis of Kikuchi's disease was made on cytological examination [Figures 1, 2 and 3a, b].
Kikuchi disease: Histopathologic section showing focal necrosis surrounded by karyorrhectic debris, histiocytes and plasmacytoid lymphocytes (H and E, x400)
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