Metchnikoff-Schaumann bodies in experimental Yersin's type tuberculosis induced with Mycobacterium avium in hamster

Prunescu, C.C.; Prunescu, P.; Scripcariu, D.

Morphologie et Embryologie 25(2): 171-174

1979


ISSN/ISBN: 0377-5038
PMID: 225661
Document Number: 153254
Structure and ultrastructure of Metchnikoff-Schaumann bodies occurring in macrophages, epithelioid cells and multinucleated giant cells in tuberculous granuloma were investigated. Their similitude with other reported intracellular calcareous bodies occurring in malakoplakia, infectious orchitis (Michaelis-Guttman' bodies or calcosphaerites), in beryllium granulomas (conchoid bodies) and sarcoidosis (Schaumann bodies) is discussed.

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