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Birbeck granules

Friday 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

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