Tanveer Iqbal Fatmi, Qamar Jamal.
A morphological study of chronic granulomatous lymphadenitis with the help of special stains.
Pak J Med Sci Jan ;18(1):48-51.

Objective: To find out the causative organisms with the help of special stains in chronic granulomatous lymphadenitis. Design: A retrospective study of 100 patients suffering from chronic granulomatous lymphadenitis. Setting: Surgical OPD, Wards and BMSI, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi Pakistan. Subjects: One hundred patients between the age of 11 to 75 years (34 males and 66 females) were selected over a period of three years suffering from chronic granulomatous lymphadenitis. Results: Results of the study show that commonly involved sites were cervical lymph nodes (52%) other sites were inguinal and mesenteric, 10% each. Thirty-four were males and sixty-six females. Caseating granulomas were sixty two and non-caseating granulomas thirty eight. Twenty-two lymph nodes showed acid fast bacilli, four showed LD bodies and two gram negative bacilli. Conclusions: Results of the study indicates that isolated organisms were mostly mycobacterium tuberculosis in chronic granulomatous lymphadenitis but other etiological agents were also isolated.

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