Fried Egg Appearance

Fried Egg Appearance

A descriptor for a pattern likened to a fried egg that has an intact yolk surrounded by an empty rim of cytoplasm or uninvolved material
Haematology A descriptive term for the appearance of the neoplastic cells in the bone marrow in hairy cell leukaemia
Microbiology A descriptor for the colony morphology of Mycoplasma hominis and M pneumonia on Shepherd’s differential growth medium, where the growth occurs in 2 planes, both deep to and on the surface of the agar; M hominis is further characterised by its ability to use arginine
The term ‘fried egg’ has also been used in reference to the colonies of Yersinia pestis which are irregular and measure 1-2 mm in diameter, when grown on sheep blood agar
Neuropathology The appearance by light microscopy of oligodendrogliocytes, in which cleared cytoplasm surrounds a large central nucleus, a finding regarded as an artefact due to slow fixation; a similar finding may rarely occur in astrocytomas
Pathology The appearance of classic seminomas by high-power light microscopy