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If PCM is present:
If PCM is present:
*Think of [[inflammatory bowel disease]] and other long-standing injurious processes.
*Think of [[inflammatory bowel disease]] and other long-standing injurious processes.
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*Some claim that (friendly right colonic) paneth cells and paneth cell metaplasia look quite different and can be distinguished.<ref name=pmid12655793>{{cite journal |author=Rubio CA, Nesi G |title=A simple method to demonstrate normal and metaplastic Paneth cells in tissue sections |journal=In Vivo |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=67–71 |year=2003 |pmid=12655793 |doi= |url=}}</ref>


==Microscopic==
==Microscopic==
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Image: Paneth cell metaplasia in the left colon -- extremely high mag.jpg | PCM - extremely high mag. (WC)
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==IHC==
*Lysozyme +ve.<ref name=pmid12655793>{{cite journal |author=Rubio CA, Nesi G |title=A simple method to demonstrate normal and metaplastic Paneth cells in tissue sections |journal=In Vivo |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=67–71 |year=2003 |pmid=12655793 |doi= |url=}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 11:43, 20 January 2014

Paneth cell metaplasia. H&E stain.

The Paneth cell is characteristic of the small intestine. It is also normal in the cecum, ascending colon and transverse colon.

Paneth cell metaplasia, abbreviated PCM, redirects to this article.

General

  • Paneth cells should not be in the left colon.[1]
    • If you see 'em there it is Paneth cell metaplasia.

Paneth cell metaplasia

If PCM is present:

Microscopic

Features:

  • Supranuclear eosinophilic granules.

DDx:

  • Enterochromaffin cells (AKA Kulchitsky cells).
    • Subnuclear eosinophilic granules.
  • Intraepithelial eosinophils.
    • Eosinophils have smaller (~1/2) more intensely red granules.

Images

IHC

  • Lysozyme +ve.[2]

See also

References

  1. Tanaka M, Saito H, Kusumi T, et al (December 2001). "Spatial distribution and histogenesis of colorectal Paneth cell metaplasia in idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease". J. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 16 (12): 1353–9. PMID 11851832. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/resolve/openurl?genre=article&sid=nlm:pubmed&issn=0815-9319&date=2001&volume=16&issue=12&spage=1353.
  2. Rubio CA, Nesi G (2003). "A simple method to demonstrate normal and metaplastic Paneth cells in tissue sections". In Vivo 17 (1): 67–71. PMID 12655793.