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Giant cell tumour in orthopedic
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HISTIOCYTES
•CELLS THAT FUNCTION AS
PHAGOCYTES
•RICH IN LYSOSOMES AND ACID
PHOSPHATASE
5TYPES OF HISTIOCYTES
•HAEMOPOETIC HISTIOCYTES
•CONNECTIVE TISSUE HISTIOCYTES
•HISTIOCYTES OF RE ORGANS
•BONE RESORPTION HISTIOCYTES
•HISTIOCYTES OF CNS
WHEN MACROPHAGES
ENCOUNTER
INSOLUBLE MATERIAL
THEY COALESCE
TO FORM GIANT CELLS
DEVELOPBY ACCIDENT
WHEN TWO OR MORE
MACROPHAGES ATTEMPT
SIMULTANEOUSLY TO
ENGULF THE SAME
PARTICLE
IN HUMAN TISSUE
MITOTIC FIGURES ARE
NOT SEEN IN GIANT
CELLS
•
FOREIGN BODY GIANT CELL
CONTAINS NUMEROUS NUCLEI
NUCLEI UNIFORM SIZE&SHAPE
RESEMBLES NUCLEI OF
MACROPHAGES
NUCLEI
SCATTEREDTHROUGHOUT
CYTOPLASM
SEEN IN CHRONIC INFECTIOS
GRANULOMAS
LANGHANS GIANT CELLS
•In tuberculosis & sarcoidosis
•Nuclei resemble to macrophage&epithelioid
cells
•Nuclei arranged in the periphery as horse
shoe,ring or at two poles of the cells
TOUTON GIANT CELL
•Vacuolated cytoplasm due to lipid content
•Nuclei arranged around central eosinophilic
cytoplasm
•Seen in xanthomas
MISCELLANEOUS
•Aschoff cells in rheumatic nodules
•Reedsternberg cells in hodgkins disease
•Osteoclast
•Warthin finkeldey giant cells in measles
•Epithelial giant cells in herpes virus
infection
TUMOUR GIANT CELLS
•Numerous nulei
•Nucleoi hyperchromatic&varying in
size& shape
•Large cells
•Not derived from macrophages
•Formed from dividing nuclei of
neoplastic cells
BENIGN OSTEOCLAST
LIKE GIANT CELLS
•HISTOLOGICALLY IDENTICAL TO
OSTEOCLASTS
•NOT FOUND IN DIRECT APPOSITION
TO BONES
THEY MAY FORM LARGE
TUMOUR MASSES IN
•ASSOCIATION WITH EXCESSIVE
PARATHORMONE
•PAGETS DISEASE
•OSTEOCLASTOMA
ANAPLASTIC OSTEOCLAST
LIKE GIANT CELLS
•CELLS WITH INDIVIDUAL NUCLEI
•NUCLEI SHOW UNEQIVOCAL
ANAPLASIA
•OTHERWISE SIMILAR TO
OSTEOCLASTS
•SEEN IN GIANT CELL SARCOMA
BENIGN HISTIOCYTIC GIANT
CELL
•Resemble FB and langhans giant
cells
•Abundant foamy vacuolated
cytoplasm
•Seen in gauchers disease
ANAPLASTIC HISTIOCYTIC
GIANT CELL
•Multiple separate or multilobulated
nuclei
•Nuclei show features of anaplasia
•Seen in
• hodgkins disease
• malignant fibrous histiocytoma
• reticulum cell sarcoma
REED SRERNBERG CELLS
•Anaplastic histiocytic giant cells
•2-8 centrally placed nuclei
•Large pink nucleoli
•Spoke wheel chromatin
•Found in association with variable
quantities of benign chronic
inflammatory cells
HISTOLOGIC INTERPRETATION
•Number of nuclei
•Separate versusmultilobulated nuclei
•Central or peripheral placement
•Size of nuclei
•Absence or presence of anaplasia
•Cytoplasmic characterestics
•Sarrounding stroma