Photodynamic therapy is a new mode of cancer treatment with promising results for basal cell carcinoma. The current study aims to investigate the accuracy of skin scrape cytology in the diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma as an integrated part of the treatment procedure. A total of 107 nodular basal cell carcinomas of the skin from 90 patients were examined and cytological and histological diagno...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a skin disease caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania. Few studies have assessed the influence of the sample collection site within the ulcer and the sampling method on the sensitivity of parasitological and molecular diagnostic techniques for CL. Sensitivity of the technique can be dependent upon the load and distribution of Leishmania amastigote...