osteoclast-like giant cell

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osteoclast-like giant cell

A multinucleated giant cell with abundant eosinophilic, finely granular or homogeneous cytoplasm containing up to 100 uniform oval nuclei, each measuring 5–7 µm with scattered small nucleoli and peripheral chromatin.

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Osteoclast-like giant cells are often scattered among plump spindled mononuclear cells and may occur in benign and malignant conditions—e.g., fibrous histiocytoma, Langerhan’s cell histiocytosis, in the mural nodules of mucin-producing ovarian and liver cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, tumoural calcinosis.

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