✅ Skin Cytology. Basal cell carcinoma in a patient with suspected leishmaniasis. A patient, 80 years old, was referred to the laboratory for material collection from a lesion on the scalp to rule out leishmaniasis. Smears from the scrape revealed clusters of poorly visible cells in the form of an accumulation of hyperchromatic nuclei with indistinct, blurred contours, with coarse chromatin and no nucleoli, often devoid of cytoplasm. Characteristic of BCC. BCC (Basalioma) is a very common skin cancer (mainly on exposed areas) with locally destructive growth, practically no metastasis.
🔬 Case from the Head of the Morphology/IFT Department of the A-Emek Medical Center 🇮🇱Israel - Anna Belen.
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