Unique Histopathology picture/Bodies

Lesion/ Condition	Histopathological appearance
Actinomycosis	Organism arranged in Radiating rosette or Sunray pattern
Adenoid cystic carcinoma – cribriform pattern	Swiss cheese pattern or Honey comb pattern
Alveolar soft part sarcoma	Tumor cells in pseudoalveloar or organoid pattern
Apthous ulcer smear	Anitschkow cells
Aspergillosis	Organism are branching, septate hyphae invading blood vessels
Basal cell adenoma- membranous type	Neoplastic cells in Jigsaw puzzle pattern
Burkitt's lymphoma	Starry sky pattern
Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor	Lisegang rings – concentric calcifications
Calcifying Odontogenic cysts	Tumor cells have Ghost cells
Canalicular adenoma	Paired wall arrangement of neoplastic cells
Cat Scratch disease	Lymph node cortical hyperplasia; areas of stellate supparative necrosis surrounded by a band of histiocytes
Chronic diffuse sclerosing osteomyelitis	Bone shows mosaic pattern
Cicatricial pemphigoid	Sub-epidermal / sub-epithelial split; no acantholysis
Cytomegalovirus	Inclusion bodies makes the owl eyes cells
Dilantin sodium induced gingival hyperplasia	Test tube rete pegs
Epstein’s nodule	Keratin arranged in concentric “onion ring”
Ewing’s sarcoma	Neoplastic cells arranged in Filigree pattern
Family benign Pemphigus	Dilapidated brick wall effect; corps ronds and grain
Fibrosarcoma – intermediate	Herring bone pattern
Fibrous dysplasia	Chinese letter shaped bone trabeculae
Fibrous histiocytoma	Storiform pattern; Grenz zone
Gaucher’s disease	Gaucher’s cell with crumpled silk cytoplasm (liver cells)
Hemangiopericytoma	Stag horn pattern
Hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis	Cell with in a cell appearance -dyskeratotic epithelial cell
Hodgkins lymphoma	Lacunar type Reed Sternberg Cells – Owl eye cells
Hodgkins lymphoma – Nodular, lymphocyte predominant	Popcorn cells or Kern cells
Hurler syndrome	Hurler cells or Gargoyle cells or clear cells
Junctional nevus	"Abtropfung" effect
Keratosis follicularis	Corps ronds and grains
Lipoblastoma	Signet ring cells
Multiple myeloma	Russell cells;  sheets of plasma cells that have a cart wheel or checker board type of nuclear pattern
Mycosis fungoides	Mycosis cells or Sezary cells with cerebriform nucleus, Pautrier's micro abscess
Neurolemmoma	Antoni A; Antoni B; Verocay bodies
Niemann – Pick disease	Niemann –Pick cell in reticuloendothelial system as Sea-blue histiocyte
Oncocytoma	Oncocytes in alveolar or Organoid pattern
Paget's disiease	Jig jag or mosaic pattern of bones seem
Paracoccidiodiomycosis	Organism appears as a mickey mouse ears or Mariners wheel appearance
Para-neoplastic Pemphigus	suprabasilar split; Dyskeratotic cells
Pemphigus foliaceous	suprabasilar split, Antibodies to Desmoglein 1, Prevesicular edema, Tzank cells in smear; basal cells “ row of tombstones”
Pemphigus vulgaris	suprabasilar split, Antibodies to Desmoglein 1,3., Prevesicular edema, Tzank cells in smear; basal cells “ row of tombstones”
Pernicious anemia	Bone marrow biopsy - Erythroid precursors show checkerboard appearance
Polymorphous low grade adenocarcinoma	Indian filing pattern type of arrangement of neoplastic cells
Porokeratosis of Mibelli	Coronoid lamella
Radicular dentin dysplasia	Lava flowing over boulders
Rhabdomyosarcoma – Embryonal	Tadpole shaped rhabdomyoblasts
Rhabdomyosarcoma- pleomorphic	Spindle tumor cell appears as racquet / strug/ ribbon cells
Regional odontodysplasia	Enamloid congromerulates
Sarcoidosis	Schaumann bodies (Laminated basophilic calcifications), Asteroid bodies (Stellate inclusions in granulomatous inflammation)
Scurvy	Grustmark  and Trummerfield zone in bone
Synovial sarcoma	Appears like a developing joint with a typical synovium like cleft
Thalassemia	Intracellular inclusion bodies in erythrocytes - Fessas bodies –demonstrated by supravital stains; Target cell appearance; “safety pin cells”
Verruciform xanthoma	Foam cell limited to connective tissue papillae
Warty dyskeratoma	Corps ronds and grains
White spongy nevus	Eosinophilic condensation in perinuclear region of cells in superficial layers
Zygormycosis	Organism are large, branching, non septate hyphae invading blood vessels

More"Bodies"

·        Apoptotic bodies : membrane bound spherical structures in Apoptosis

·        Aschoff's bodies : Rheumatic fever

·        Asteroid bodies : Sporotrichosis; Sarcoidosis

·         Babes:Ernest metachromatic granules : Diphtheria

·         Balbiani's Bodies : yolk nucleus

·         Bamboo Bodies : asbestos bodies

·         Bollinger's bodies : Fowl pox (intracytoplasmic)

·         Brachy Wächter Bodies : Infective Endocarditis

·         Brassy Body : dark shrunken blood corpuscle found in MALARIA

·         Civatte’s (colloid) bodies : Lichen planus

·         Coccoid X Bodies : psittacosis

·         Councilman bodies : Yellow fever

·         Cowdry type:A bodies : Yellow fever, Herpes virus infection

·         Cowdry type:B bodies : Adenovirus, Poliovirus 

·         Davidson’s body : sex chromatin in neutrophils (dumbbell shaped); "Check Barr Bodies"

·         Döhle bodies : cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in neutrophils seen in bacterial infection

·         Donovan body : Granuloma inguinale

·         Feruginous Bodies : Asbestosis

·         Gamma-Favre bodies : LGV

·         Guarnieri's bodies : Vaccinia (intracytoplasmic)

·         Hectoid bodies : Sickle cell anemia

·         Heinz bodies – thalassemia; G6PD DEF

·         Henderson:Peterson's bodies : Molluscum contagiosum

·         Herring bodies : pars nervosa of pituitary gland

·         Hirano bodies : Alzheimer’s disease

·         Histiocytosis:X(HX)(Birbeck's granules) : Histiocytosis:X

·         Howell:Jelly bodies : splenectomy , Megaloblastic Anaemia, Hemolytic anaemia

·         LE bodies (hematoxylin bodies) : SLE

·         Leishman’s Donovan’s bodies : Kala Azar

·         Lewy bodies : Parkinson's disease

·         Lipschütz' bodies : intra nuclear inclusions in herpes simplex infection

·         Miyagava's bodies : Lymphogranuloma venereum

·         Moser’s bodies : Typhus fever

·         Mott Bodies : multiple myeloma

·         Negri bodies (intracytoplasmic, intra neuron, hippocampus) : Rabies

·         Nissl’s bodies : cytoplasmic inclusions in neurons

·         Odland Bodies : Flegel’s Disease (i.e hyperkeratosis lenticularis perstans); Keratinosome

·         Oken's Body : mesonephros

·         Pappenheimer bodies – non heme iron pigments in siderocyte

·         Paschen Bodies : variola or vaccinia

·         Pick BODIES : PICKS Disease

·         Red Neurons : Apoptosis

·         Reilly’s bodies : Hurler's syndrome

·         Residual Bodies : SARCOID AND SARCOID LIKE GRANULOMAS

·         Schaumann’s/Conchoids bodies (calcium & iron complexes) : Sarcoidosis & Berylliosis

·         Torres bodies : Yellow fever

·         Verocay bodies – Neurilemmoma; schwannoma

·         Weibel:Palade bodies : storage organelles of von Willebrand’s factor in platelets & endothelium

·         Winkler's & Ross's bodies : Syphilis

·         Zebra bodies : cytoplasmic inclusions in schwann cell degeneration

Zebra BODIES : Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, Niemann Pick's Disease.