Comparative Evaluation of Clinical, Cytological and Microbiological Profile in Abdominal vs. Cervical Lymph Nodal Tuberculosis with Special Emphasis on Utility of Auramine-O Staining.

ZN stain positivity was found in 39.4% of cases in our study which is in accordance with most studies, however, few of the studies like those by Mitra et al .[ 16 ] and Chand et al .[ 18 ] reported higher positivity rates of 44.5 and 51.6% respectively.[ 17 23 ] In addition, in our study abdominal lymph nodes showed higher positivity (3.67 times) than cervical lymph nodes (62.5% vs 31%) which was found to be highly significant.

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