List of Pathological Bodies

The following is a list of pathological bodies that are quite often asked in various PG Examinations...

1. Aschoff Bodies - rheumatic fever
2. Asteroid body – sporotrichosis
3. BABES - ERNST Bodies - metachromatic granules
4. BALBIANI'S Bodies – yolk nucleus
5. Bamboo bodies – asbestosis
6. Bodies OF ARANTIUS - aortic valve nodules
7. BODY OF HIGHMORE - mediastinum testis
8. Bollinger bodies - fowlpox
9. Brassy body – dark shrunken blood corpuscle found in malaria
10. Call exners bodies – granulosa theca cell tumour
11. Chromatid bodies - entamoeba histolytica precyst
12. Citron bodies - cl. Septicum
13. Civatte bodies – lichen planus
14. Councilman bodies – hepatitis B
15. Coccoid X bodies – psittacosis
16. Creola bodies - asthma
17. Cystoid bodies – in degenerated retinal nerve fibers ( seen in Cotton wool spots)
18. Donnes bodies – colostrums corpuscles
19. Donovan bodies – granulose inguinale (LGV)
20. Ferruginous bodies – asbestosis
21. Gamma gandy bodies – congestive splenomegaly
22. Guarnieri bodies - inclusion bodies of vaccinia
23. Henderson Peterson bodies - molluscum contagiosum
24. Harting bodies – calcospheritis in the cerebral capillaries
25. Heinz bodies – G 6 PD deficiency
26. Herring bodies – neurohypophysis
27. Heterophil antibodies – infectious mononucleosis
28. Hirano bodies – alzheimer’s disease
29. Lewy bodies – parkinsonism
30. Levinthal coles lille bodies - psittacosis
31. Mallory bodies – alcoholic hepatitis
32. Masson bodies – rheumatic pneumonia
33. Michelis guttman bodies – malakoplakia
34. Mooser bodies – endemic typhus
35. Moot bodies – multiple myeloma
36. Negri bodies – rabies
37. Odland body – keratinosome
38. Oken’s body - mesonephros
39. Paschen bodies – vaccinia / variola
40. Pick bodies – picks disease
41. Psamomma bodies –
a.papillary carcinoma of thyroid
b.serous papillary carcinoma of ovary
c.meningiomad.mesothelioma
42. Reilly bodies – hurler’s syndrome
43. Rokitansky bodies - teratoma
44. Ross’s bodies – syphilis
45. Rushton bodies – odontogenic cyst
46. Sclerotic bodies - chromoblastomycosis
47. Sandstorm bodies – parathyroid glands
48. Schillar dual bodies - yolk sac tumour
49. Schaumann bodies - sarcoidosis
50. Verocay bodies – schwanoma
51. Winkler bodies – syphilis
52. Zebra bodies – metachromatic leukodystrophy

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