Histo Bodies Buzz Flashcards
Antoni A tissue - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Cellular pattern (spindle cells arranged in stacks with palisading nuclei) with Verocay bodies - Schwannoma
Antoni B tissue - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Hypocellular pattern: loose stroma and few cells - Schwannoma
Asteroid bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Extracellular central spore surrounded by radiating homogenous eosinophilic material - Sporotrichosis (Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon)
Intracellular stellate eosinophilic inclusion bodies within multinucleated giant cell - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Sarcoidosis, berylliosis, foreign body reaction, etc. -
Banana bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Banana-shaped golden-yellow (ochre) fibers - Ochronosis
Bean bag cells - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Histiocytes showing phagocytosis of lymphocytes, erythrocytes or platelets - Cytophagic histiocytic panniculitis
Birbeck granules - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Tennis racket-shaped or rod-shaped structures within cytoplasm of Langerhans cell seen on EM - Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Caterpillar bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Wavy eosinophilic material in basal epidermal layer or roof of blister - Porphyria cutanea tarda, erythropoietic porphyria
Cholesterol clefts - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Lipid crystals inside adipocytes forming rosettes of needle-like clefts - Sclerema neonatorum, subcutaneous fat necrosis of newborn
Clear needle-shaped spaces (not necessarily in adipocytes) - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Xanthomas, necrobiotic xanthogranuloma -
Colloid bodies (Civatte bodies) - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Eosinophilic homogenous structures (cell remnants) in lower epidermis or papillary dermis - Lichen planus, other interface dermatoses
Corp ronds - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Dyskeratotic acantholytic keratinocytes with round nuclei and perinuclear halo - Darier disease, Hailey-Hailey, Grover’s, warty dyskeratoma
Cowdry Type A inclusion bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Large eosinophilic intranuclear inclusion with surrounding clear halo in infected cells - HSV and VZV infection
Cowdry Type B inclusion bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Intranuclear amorphous bodies surrounded by clear halo in neural cells - Polio
Donovan bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Intracytoplasmic bacteria in infected histiocytes (vacuolated appearance containing bacilli) - Granuloma inguinale
Dutcher bodies - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Eosinophilic intranuclear inclusions of immunoglobulins in malignant plasma cells - Multiple myeloma
Flame figures - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Eosinophilic material (cells and debris) surrounding pink amorphous collagen - Well’s syndrome, arthropod bite, drug reaction
Floret-type giant cell - ?Description - ?Characteristic in which entitiy
Giant cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm and marginally placed nuclei resembling small flower - Pleomorphic lipoma