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caseous necrosis

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caseous necrosis
n.
A type of tissue death in which all cellular outline is lost and tissue appears crumbly and cheeselike, usually seen in tuberculosis. Also called caseous degeneration.
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Histology of the deep biopsy specimen identified features of granulomatous inflammation and palisading epithelioid cells, Langhans' giant cells, lymphocytes, and a few neutrophils with small foci of caseous necrosis (figure 1).
Coexistent cervical tuberculosis and metastatic squamous cell ... by O'Dwyer, Tigh / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Other histopathologic findings included generalized moderate hepatocellular atrophy and focal to diffuse aggregates of lymphocytes, plasma cells, and maerophages, some of which had centers of caseous necrosis, in the renal interstitium.
West Nile virus encephalitis in a Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) by Andonova, Maya / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Two of the three had yellow-tan, caseous necrosis of the palatine tonsils and multiple caseous yellow-tan plaques, 2- to 10-mm in diameter, on the mucosal surfaces of the esophagus, corpus, and pars pylorica.
West Nile virus in farmed alligators. (Research) by Frazier, Kendal S. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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