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→Specific diagnoses - benign
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*Necrotizing granulomatous inflammation. | *Necrotizing granulomatous inflammation. | ||
==Systemic lupus erythematosus== | |||
{{Main|Systemic lupus erythematosus}} | |||
===General=== | |||
*Not common. | |||
*Distinctive. | |||
===Cytology=== | |||
Features: | |||
*Lupus erythematosus cells, usually abbreviated ''LE cells'':<ref>URL:[http://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/ub/view/Tabers/143167/34/L_E__cell http://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/ub/view/Tabers/143167/34/L_E__cell]. Accessed on: 12 April 2012.</ref> | |||
**Pink blobs (representing a denatured nuclei) - phagocytosed by macrophages or [[PMN]]s.<ref>URL: [http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/IMMHTML/IMM008.html http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/IMMHTML/IMM008.html]. Accessed on: 12 April 2012.</ref> | |||
Image: | |||
*[http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/IMMHTML/IMM008.html LE cell (utah.edu)]. | |||
*[http://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/ub/view/Tabers/143167/34/L_E__cell LE cell (tabers.com)]. | |||
=Specific diagnoses - malignant= | =Specific diagnoses - malignant= | ||