histiocytic

Examples

• All

• High-power view showing emperiopolesis (histiocytic engulfment of lymphocytes) (H&E, 680x).

  Academic text (1998)

• In KFD, the large cells stain positive for CD68, a histiocytic marker.

  Academic text (2009)

• He had a cancer called histiocytic sarcoma and it was like pretty much a death sentence.

  Jack Neel

• A large area of caseous necrosis was surrounded by a histiocytic mantle.

  Academic text (2002)

• Pathologic examination identified round and spindle-shaped fibro-histiocytic cells and numerous multinucleated giant cells.

  Academic text (2003)

• Recent immunohistochemical studies suggest that the basic cell is the fibroblast or myofibroblast and that histiocytic differentiation is either variable or absent.

  Academic text (2001)

• Keywords: Kikuchi's disease; Lymphadenopathy; Histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis

  Academic text (2007)

• Immunohistochemical staining for S-100 protein and CD1a confirmed that the histiocytic cells were Langerhans' cells.

  Academic text (2002)

• Many of the spindle cells and all of the multinucleated cells were positive for CD68 (KP1), a histiocytic marker (figure 3B).

  Academic text (2001)

• Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is a rare, benign, self-limiting cervical lymphadenitis of unknown origin.

  Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

M

macrophagic

vshistiocytic

• Specialized

1 8.3

Relating to large body cells that eat and digest germs and foreign material

is about immune cell type in general rather than its active engulfing role

Compounds

H

histiocytic leukemia

• Specialized

8.1

A blood cancer in which certain white blood cells called monocytes and their young forms are too many

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology