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The '''mast cell''' is an uncommonly cell that occasionally causes problems. | The '''mast cell''' is an uncommonly cell that occasionally causes problems. | ||
== | ==Microscopic== | ||
Features: | Features: | ||
* | *Ovoid/round cell with moderate amount of gray granular cytoplasm. | ||
** | *Nuclear ovoid/round. | ||
* | **No obvious nucleolus. | ||
*May be more abundant around [[blood vessels]]. | |||
Notes: | Notes: | ||
*Lymphocyte vs. mast cell: | *Lymphocyte vs. mast cell: | ||
**Lymphocytes = round; mast cells = ovoid. | **Lymphocytes = round; mast cells = ovoid. | ||
Image: | |||
*[http://www.jameswpattersonmd.com/images/pages/urt_pigment4.jpg Mastocytosis (jameswpattersonmd.com)].<ref>URL: [http://www.jameswpattersonmd.com/case_studies/index.cfm?CFID=387434 http://www.jameswpattersonmd.com/case_studies/index.cfm?CFID=387434]. Accessed on: 7 September 2011.</ref> | |||
==Diseases== | ==Diseases== | ||
Revision as of 20:24, 7 September 2011
The mast cell is an uncommonly cell that occasionally causes problems.
Microscopic
Features:
- Ovoid/round cell with moderate amount of gray granular cytoplasm.
- Nuclear ovoid/round.
- No obvious nucleolus.
- May be more abundant around blood vessels.
Notes:
- Lymphocyte vs. mast cell:
- Lymphocytes = round; mast cells = ovoid.
Image:
Diseases
Stains
IHC
- CD117 +ve.
References
- ↑ URL: http://www.jameswpattersonmd.com/case_studies/index.cfm?CFID=387434. Accessed on: 7 September 2011.
- ↑ Mitchell, Richard; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Abbas, Abul K.; Aster, Jon (2011). Pocket Companion to Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (8th ed.). Elsevier Saunders. pp. 370-2. ISBN 978-1416054542.