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Antoni A tissue - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Cellular pattern (spindle cells arranged in stacks with palisading nuclei) with Verocay bodies - Schwannoma

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Antoni B tissue - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Hypocellular pattern: loose stroma and few cells - Schwannoma

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Asteroid bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Extracellular central spore surrounded by radiating homogenous eosinophilic material - Sporotrichosis (Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon)

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Intracellular stellate eosinophilic inclusion bodies within multinucleated giant cell - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Sarcoidosis, berylliosis, foreign body reaction, etc. -

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Banana bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Banana-shaped golden-yellow (ochre) fibers - Ochronosis

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Bean bag cells - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Histiocytes showing phagocytosis of lymphocytes, erythrocytes or platelets - Cytophagic histiocytic panniculitis

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Birbeck granules - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Tennis racket-shaped or rod-shaped structures within cytoplasm of Langerhans cell seen on EM - Langerhans cell histiocytosis

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Caterpillar bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Wavy eosinophilic material in basal epidermal layer or roof of blister - Porphyria cutanea tarda, erythropoietic porphyria

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Cholesterol clefts - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Lipid crystals inside adipocytes forming rosettes of needle-like clefts - Sclerema neonatorum, subcutaneous fat necrosis of newborn

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Clear needle-shaped spaces (not necessarily in adipocytes) - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Xanthomas, necrobiotic xanthogranuloma -

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Colloid bodies (Civatte bodies) - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Eosinophilic homogenous structures (cell remnants) in lower epidermis or papillary dermis - Lichen planus, other interface dermatoses

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Corp ronds - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Dyskeratotic acantholytic keratinocytes with round nuclei and perinuclear halo - Darier disease, Hailey-Hailey, Grover’s, warty dyskeratoma

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Cowdry Type A inclusion bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Large eosinophilic intranuclear inclusion with surrounding clear halo in infected cells - HSV and VZV infection

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Cowdry Type B inclusion bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Intranuclear amorphous bodies surrounded by clear halo in neural cells - Polio

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Donovan bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Intracytoplasmic bacteria in infected histiocytes (vacuolated appearance containing bacilli) - Granuloma inguinale

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Dutcher bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Eosinophilic intranuclear inclusions of immunoglobulins in malignant plasma cells - Multiple myeloma

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Flame figures - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Eosinophilic material (cells and debris) surrounding pink amorphous collagen - Well’s syndrome, arthropod bite, drug reaction

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Floret-type giant cell - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Giant cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm and marginally placed nuclei resembling small flower - Pleomorphic lipoma

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Globi - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Foamy histiocytes containing clustered bacilli - Lepromatous leprosy

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Gamma Favre body - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Large intracytoplasmic basophilic inclusion body - Lymphogranuloma venereum

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Gargoyle cells - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Fibroblast with large deposits of mucopolysaccharide (MPS) - MPS storage diseases (ie. Hurler)

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Grains - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Basophilic dyskeratotic cells with elongated wavy or ‘grain-shaped’ nuclei in granular layer - Darier disease, Hailey-Hailey, Grover’s, warty dyskeratoma

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Guarnieri bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusions in affected epithelial cells - Vaccinia or smallpox

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Henderson-Patterson bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Large eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion of viral protein in keratinocytes - Molluscum contagiosum

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Kamino bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Eosinophilic amorphous globules (contain basement membrane component) - Spitz nevi

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Koilocytes - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Keratinocyte with hyperchromatic nuclei surrounded by perinuclear halo - HPV infection

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Langhans giant cells - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Multinucleated giant cell with peripheral nuclei in horseshoe shape - Foreign body reaction, hypersensitivity reaction

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Lipofuscin granules - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Lipofuscin yellow-brown granule accumulation in dermal macrophages - Amiodarone pigmentation

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Max Joseph space - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Artifactual clefting at dermo-epidermal junction - Lichen planus

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Medlar bodies (Copper pennies) - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Thick-walled spherical brown cells - Chromomycosis

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Miescher’s radial granuloma - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Nodules containing histiocytes arranged radially around central cleft in interlobular septae - Erythema nodosum

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Miescher’s granuloma - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Phagocytosis of dermal elastic fibers by giant cells and histiocytes - Annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma (actinic granuloma)

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Michaelis Gutmann bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Concentric basophilic lamellar bodies in foamy macrophages (von Hansemann) in urinary tract - Malakoplakia

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Mikulicz cell - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Foamy macrophage containing bacilli - Rhinoscleroma

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Mariner’s wheel - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Budding yeast resemble ‘mariner’s wheel’ - Paracoccidiodomycosis

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Mulberry cells - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Multiple septations with mulberry-like sporangia - Protothecosis, hibernoma

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Munro microabscess - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Small collection of neutrophils within horny layer associated with parakeratosis - Psoriasis

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Negri bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Neuronal eosinophilic bodies - Rabies

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Pautrier microabscesses - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Collection of atypical T cells within epidermis - Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma

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Psammoma body - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Concentrically laminated collection of calcium - Meningioma

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Pustulo-ovoid bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Round eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion - Granular cell tumor

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Rocha-Lima bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Pink-purple cytoplasmic inclusion in endothelial cells - Oroya fever/verruga peruana

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Russell bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Eosinophilic immunoglobulin deposits within plasma cell - Rhinoscleroma, granuloma inguinale

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Verocay body - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Parallel rows of nuclei surrounded by homogenous eosinophilic material - Schwannoma

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Schaumann bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Calcified inclusion from degenerated lysosomes in macrophages - Sarcoidosis

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Virchow cells - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Foamy histiocytes containing M. leprae - Lepromatous leprosy

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Von Hansemann cells - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy

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Foamy eosinophilic macrophages containing Michaelis Gutmann bodies - Malakoplakia

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