{"title":"A tricky nasal polyp.","authors":"Federica Filipello, Daniela Finocchiaro, Alessandro Vinciguerra, Sara Racca, Claudio Doglioni, Federica Pedica","doi":"10.32074/1591-951X-783","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by a protozoon of the genus Leishmania. It can manifest as cutaneous, mucosal, localized lymphadenitis forms or it can result as multiorgan involvement. In this article we present the case of a 59-year-old male with a polypoid mass attached to the septum at the right nasal cavity and symptoms as nasal congestion, hyposmia and anterior rhinorrhea. Histological sections of the mass showed oval-shaped inclusions in the cytoplasm of histiocytes suspicious for Leishmania amastigotes. The diagnosis was confirmed by detection of Leishmania complex DNA with polymerase chain reaction (PCR).</p>","PeriodicalId":45893,"journal":{"name":"PATHOLOGICA","volume":"117 2","pages":"153-155"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12142294/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PATHOLOGICA","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.32074/1591-951X-783","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PATHOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by a protozoon of the genus Leishmania. It can manifest as cutaneous, mucosal, localized lymphadenitis forms or it can result as multiorgan involvement. In this article we present the case of a 59-year-old male with a polypoid mass attached to the septum at the right nasal cavity and symptoms as nasal congestion, hyposmia and anterior rhinorrhea. Histological sections of the mass showed oval-shaped inclusions in the cytoplasm of histiocytes suspicious for Leishmania amastigotes. The diagnosis was confirmed by detection of Leishmania complex DNA with polymerase chain reaction (PCR).