Eosinophil
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Eosinophil is a common type of white blood cell.
General
Disease with many eosinophils
- Infection - esp. fungal.
- Drug reaction.
- Inflammatory fibroid polyp.
- Churg-Strauss syndrome.
- Asthma.
- Kimura disease.
- Inflammatory bowel disease.
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
- Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome.
- Eosinophilic myeloproliferative neoplasm.[1]
- Hodgkin lymphoma - eosinophils not malignant.
Site specific
- Eosinophilic esophagitis.
- Eosinophilic colitis.
- Eosinophilic gastritis.
- Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
- Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) - skin.
Microscopic
Features:
- Bilobed nucleus.
- Granular eosinophilic cytoplasm.
DDx:
- Paneth cells.
Images
Eosinophils in eosinophilic colitis. (WC)
See also
- ↑ Noel, P.; Mesa, RA. (Mar 2013). "Eosinophilic myeloid neoplasms.". Curr Opin Hematol 20 (2): 157-62. doi:10.1097/MOH.0b013e32835d81bf. PMID 23385615.