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cellular infiltration
Wednesday 5 May 2004
cellular infiltrates ; Cellular infiltrations
Definition : Infiltration of a tissue by normal cells or tumoral cells.
Types
inflammatory cellular infiltration / inflammatory infiltrate
- leukocytic infiltration (leukocytic infiltrates)
- granulocytic infiltrations
- lymphocytic infiltrations
- plasmacytic infiltrations
- histiocytic infiltrations (macrophagic infiltrations)
- eosinophilic infiltrations
- basophilic infiltrations
- mastocytic infiltrations
- granulomatous infiltrations
- tuberculoid granulomatous infiltrations (tuberculoid granulomatoses)
tumoral cell infiltrations (tumoral cellular infiltration)
Localization (examples)
cardiac infiltration
- endocardic infiltration
- myocardic infiltration
- pericardic infiltration
cutaneous infiltration
- epidermal infiltration
- dermal infiltration
- hypodermal infiltration
muscular infiltration
salivary infiltration
