Paneth cell
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:
- Think of inflammatory bowel disease and other long-standing injurious processes.
- PCM in the context of adenomas may be associated with a higher risk of colorectal neoplasia.[2]
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
PCM - intermed. mag. (WC)
PCM - high mag. (WC)
PCM - very high mag. (WC)
PCM - extremely high mag. (WC)
IHC
- Lysozyme +ve.[3]
See also
- Gastrointestinal pathology.
- Inflammatory bowel disease.
- Colon.
- Paneth cell-like change of the prostate gland.
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Pai, RK.; Rybicki, LA.; Goldblum, JR.; Shen, B.; Xiao, SY.; Liu, X. (Jan 2013). "Paneth cells in colonic adenomas: association with male sex and adenoma burden.". Am J Surg Pathol 37 (1): 98-103. doi:10.1097/PAS.0b013e318267b02e. PMID 23232853.
- ↑ 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.