Candida

 

Epidemiology:

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Common sites:

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Cytologic features:

    • shish-ka-bob arrangement of squamous cells impaled on hyphae
    • hypermaturation (more orange/pink cytoplasm) (keratinization)
    • reactive nuclear changes

 

Molecular features:

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Other features:

    • associated with diabetes