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Reed-Sternberg cell

A giant binucleated or multinucleated acidophilic cell in the tissues in Hodgkin's disease. Also called Sternberg-Reed cell.

Reed-Sternberg cell

Etymology: Dorothy M. Reed, American pathologist, 1874-1964; Karl Sternberg, Austrian pathologist, 1872-1935

one of a number of large, abnormal, multinucleated reticuloendothelial cells in the lymphatic system found in Hodgkin's disease. The number and proportion of Reed-Sternberg cells identified are the basis for the histopathologic classification of Hodgkin's disease.

Reed-Sternberg cell

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