Difference between revisions of "Haematopathology"

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 *Subtyped by etiology.
-===Microsopic===
+==Microscopic==
-*"Starry-sky pattern".
+Features:
-**The ''stars'' in the pattern are: tingible-bodies laden macrophages.
+*"Starry-sky pattern":
-***''[[Tingible-bodies macrophages]]'' = macrophages containing dead body of apoptotic tumor cells.
+**The ''stars'' in the pattern are: tingible-body macrophages.
+***''Tingible-body macrophages'' = macrophages containing apoptotic tumour cells.
+**The tumour cells are the sky.
 *Tumour cells:<ref name=pmid12610094/>
-**Medium size.
+**Medium-sized (~1.5-2x the size of a RBC) with uniform size ("monotonous") -- '''key feature'''.
-**Round nuclei.
+**Round nucleus.
-**Multiple nucleoli.
+**Small nucleoli.
 **Relatively abundant cytoplasm.
+**Brisk mitotic rate.
-Image: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burkitt_lymphoma,_H%26E.jpg Starry-sky pattern - Ed Uthman (www.wikipedia.org)].
+Image: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burkitt_lymphoma,_H%26E.jpg Starry-sky pattern - Ed Uthman (WC)].
 ==Plasmacytoma==