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H&E stain with visible Aschoff cells in rheumatic heart disease.

In pathology, Aschoff (or Aschoff giant cells) cells are cells associated with rheumatic heart disease. They are found in Aschoff bodies surrounding centres of fibrinoid necrosis.
In comparison with Anitschkow cells their cytoplasm is more basophilic and can contain up to four nuclei.[1]
Aschoff believed that Aschoff giant cells were some type of connective or endothelial tissue.[2] Today Aschoff cells are considered to be derived from cardiac myocytes rather than connective tissue cells.[1]

Aschoff cells were named after the German physician and pathologist Ludwig Aschoff.

References

  1. ^ a b Aschoff Body. [online]. [cit. 2014-02-25]. Retrieved from http://www.histopathology-india.net/Asch.htm
  2. ^ Wedum, B. G; McGuire, J. W (1963). "Origin of the Aschoff Body". Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 22 (3): 127–141. doi:10.1136/ard.22.3.127. PMID 13999453.
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