Subcellular anomalies

Articles

• Birbeck granules
  8 April 2005

  Tennis racket shaped structures found in Langerhan’s cells in histiocytosis X (Langerhan’s cell histiocytosis) which includes eosinophilic granuloma, Letterer-Siwe disease and Hand-Schuller-Christian disease.
  See also
  Langerhans cells
  Langerhans cell histiocytosis

• enlarged mitochondria
  14 April 2005

  See also
  mitochondrial lesions

• intramitochondrial crystalloids
  8 April 2005

  References
  Mukherjee TM, Dixon BR, Blumbergs PC, Swift JG, Hallpike JF. The fine structure of the intramitochondrial crystalloids in mitochondrial myopathy. J Submicrosc Cytol. 1986 Jul;18(3):595-604. PMID: 3746971
  Travers H, Reed JS, Kennedy JA. Ultrastructural study of the liver in argininosuccinase deficiency. Pediatr Pathol. 1986;5(3-4):307-18. PMID: #3786262#
  Hammersen F, Gidlof A, Larsson J, Lewis DH. The occurrence of paracrystalline mitochondrial inclusions in normal human (...)

• mesangial dense deposits
  2 May 2005
• endoplasmic reticulum dilatation
  18 April 2005