A large, round and strongly
basophilic nucleolus was centrally located in the nucleus with five or six circular nucleoli peripherally situated.
Most of the research on Rickettsia (or RLO) in bivalves describes intracellular,
basophilic inclusions (microcolonies), not associated with severe tissue damage (Comps et al.
(b) Ampullary biopsy (x100) showing submucosal Brunner's glands showing nucleomegaly with eosinophilic intranuclear and
basophilic cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (pointed black arrow) of CMV.
We regard the above-mentioned "
basophilic stippling" of villous basement lamina a nonspecific finding which is usually positive for iron; hence we call it ferrugination [19].
Burton's lines and
basophilic stippling on a blood smear are some of the more specific symptoms (2).
Small perforating tunnels on the epidermis were filled with keratotic plugs, which were composed of keratin material and degenerated
basophilic material.
Histopathology typically shows horn cysts, tumor islands composed of
basophilic cells of basaloid appearance arranged in peripheral palisading pattern.4,5
Eosinophilic acellular material in cyst of which texture consisting of
basophilic amorphous material were detected on the pathological examination of the specimen taken by fexible bronchoscopy.
The blood test conducted in our ED revealed hypochromic microcytic anemia with
basophilic stippling of the erythrocytes, decreased hemoglobin concentration of 9.4 g/dL, and hematocrit level of 27.9%.
A case of acute
basophilic leukemia with a t(9;22) has been described in the literature.
Many cases of MDS transform to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) [1], but AML with
basophilic differentiation has been rarely reported.
Microscopically, one of the fragments corresponds to fibroconnective tissue compressed by nodular and lobulated tumour composed of hyaline cartilaginous, without cellular atypia and with
basophilic areas (Figures 1 and 2(A)).
