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'''Eosinophil''' is a common type of white blood cell. | '''Eosinophil''' is a common type of white blood cell. | ||
==Microscopic== | |||
Features: | |||
*Bilobed nucleus. | |||
*Granular eosinophilic cytoplasm. | |||
DDx: | |||
*Paneth cells. | |||
==Disease with many eosinophils== | ==Disease with many eosinophils== | ||
Revision as of 03:08, 18 January 2014
Eosinophil is a common type of white blood cell.
Microscopic
Features:
- Bilobed nucleus.
- Granular eosinophilic cytoplasm.
DDx:
- Paneth cells.
Disease with many eosinophils
- Infection - esp. fungal.
- Drug reaction.
- Inflammatory fibroid polyp.
- Hodgkin lymphoma.
- Churg-Strauss syndrome.
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
- Kimura disease.
- Asthma.
Site specific
- Eosinophilic esophagitis.
- Eosinophilic colitis.
- Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
- Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) - skin.