Inclusion Bodies Flashcards
What are inclusion bodies?
Bodies present in nucleus or cytoplasm of certain cells in infection by filterable viruses
Aschoff !
Rheumatic Fever (extensive = McCallums Patch)
Babies Ernst Granules !
Metachromatic Granules seen in Diphtheria
= Pseudomembrane in throat!!!
Councilman cells
Viral Hepatitis
Downey Cell !
Mono
“Don’t let MONO get you DOWN!”
Atypical lymphocytes !!
Epithelioid Hyystiocyte
TB
“Giant Epitheloid Cells”
Gohn Complex !
TB (incactive phase)
Calcium “jail” around mycobacterium
Calcifications on chest xray
Guarneri Bodies !
Small Pox (Variola)
Gummas !
Tertiary Syphilis
Koplik Spots !
Measles (Rubeola / red measles)
On Buccal Mucosa = white / bluish spots !!!
Lipofuscin
“Old age pigment”
Lipid residue
Build up of lipofuscin in organs = “Brown’s Atrophy” !!
Lewy Bodies
Parkinsons / Paralysis Agitans
Shuffling / festinating gait
Mallory Bodies
Hepatitis (alcoholism)
Negri Bodies
Rabies (hydrophobia)
Pharynegeal spasms = foaming at the mouth
Reed Sternberg
Hodgkin’s