Use of fine needle aspirate from peripheral nerves of pure-neural leprosy for cytology and polymerase chain reaction to confirm the diagnosis: A follow-up study of 4 years

• Main Authors: Abhishek De (Author), Abu Hena Hasanoor Reja (Author), Ishad Aggarwal (Author), Sumit Sen (Author), Amrita Sil (Author), Basudev Bhattacharya (Author), Nidhi Sharma (Author), Asad Ansari (Author), Aarti Sarda (Author), Gobinda Chatterjee (Author), Sudip Das (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Pure neural leprosy (PNL) still remains a diagnostic challenge because of the absence of sine qua non skin lesions of leprosy and a confirmatory diagnostic method. The authors had earlier described a simple yet objective technique of combining fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) coupl...