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Microscopical anomalies
Elementary lesions; microscopical lesions
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Langhans cells
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metaplasia
11 July 2003Definition: Metaplasia is the reversible replacement of one differentiated cell type with another differentiated cell type.
Metaplasia causes precursor cells to change their cell fate, and do not change existing differentiated cells.
Metaplasia is reversible and usually occurs in response to chronic irritation and inflammation and allows for substitution of cells that are better able to survive under circumstances in which a more fragile cell type might succumb.
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suppurative granuloma
26 April 2004tuberculoid granuloma with central suppuration, suppurative tuberculoid granuloma, suppurative granuloma; suppurative epithelioid granuloma; abscess-forming granulomatous lymphadenitis
Etiology
chalazion
chronic granulomatous disease (MIM.306400)
bacterial infections cat scratch disease lymphogranuloma venereum tularemia Yersinia infection actinomycosis
mycobacterial infection
fungal infections blastomycosis nocardiosis
Links
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adrenal cytomegaly
18 January 2006PO
Definition: Adrenal cytomegaly is characterized by the presence of large polyhedral cells with eosinophilic granular cytoplasm and enlarged nuclei in the adrenal cortex. Adrenal cytomegaly is found in 0.8% pediatric autopsies.
Adrenal cytomegaly is relatively common finding within fetal cortex in newborns, particularly premature infants (3-7%) or infants with Rh incompatibility.
Adrenal cytomegaly may be associated with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
Focal adrenal cytomegaly can be (...) -
colonic cryptitis
29 May 2004colonic glandulitis
Etiology (Examples)
IBDs Crohn colitis ulcerative colitis
acute colitis infectious colitis
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colonic mucosal anomalies colonic cryptic anomalies -
ductular reaction
25 June 2003neoductular proliferation, portal ductal proliferation, ductular proliferation
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abscess
9 June 2004abcesses
Definition: Abscesses are localized collections of purulent inflammatory tissue caused by suppuration buried in a tissue, an organ, or a confined space. They are produced by deep seeding of pyogenic bacteria into a tissue.
Abscesses have a central region that appears as a mass of necrotic leukocytes and tissue cells. There is usually a zone of preserved neutrophils around this necrotic focus, and outside this region vascular dilation and parenchymal and fibroblastic proliferation (...) -
cytoplasmic inclusions
24 August 2004Types
polyglucosan bodies (polyglucosan inclusions) Lafora bodies Lafora body-like inclusions glycogen storage disease type IV (GSD4) adult polyglucosan body disease (APBD)
nigral inclusions Lewy bodies pale bodies
intermediate filament inclusion bodies Mallory bodies tumoral juxta-nuclear inclusions rhabdoid inclusions (in tumoral rhabdoid cells ) infantile digital fibroma (infantile digital fibromatosis )
spironolactone bodies in aldosterone secreting adrenal cortical adenoma (...) -
bridging necrosis
27 January 2004Definition: Bridging necrosis is the term given to confluent necrosis linking terminal venules to portal tracts. The term "Bridging necrosis" has been used for necrosis linking any of the vascular structures, but it is now more often restricted to the linking of terminal hepatic venules (centrilobular veins) to portal tracts (central-portal bridging necrosis).
Bridging necrosis describes the location rather than the type of necrosis. It usually results from extensive necrosis of confluent (...) -
perivascular mononuclear cell infiltrate
10 June 2003Localization
cutaneous perivascular mononuclear cell infiltrate
pulmonary perivascular mononuclear cell infiltrate pulmonary perivascular lymphoplasmocytic infiltrate
See also
inflammatory infiltrates perivascular inflammatory infiltrate