The Significance of Aschoff Bodies in the Left Atrial Appendage — A Comparison of 40 Biopsies Removed during Mitral Commissurotomy with Autopsy Material from 40 Patients Dying with Fulminating Rheumatic Fever | NEJM
Pathology of Rheumatic Heart Disease: Overview, Etiology and Pathophysiology, Clinical Features
Mayo Clinic Pathology on Twitter: "10/10 These have commonly been referred to as a “catepillar” cell, although they have an “owl eye” look when cut in cross-section. Fusion of Anitschkow cells into
Medicus - "The pathognomonic lesion is the Aschoff body in the proliferative stage, present in 30 to 40 per cent of biopsies of patients with acute Rheumatic Fever.23 It is seen mainly
ORIGIN OF THE ASCHOFF BODY
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