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Medlar bodies, also known as sclerotic or muriform cells, are thick walled cells (5-12microns) with multiple internal transverse septa or chambers that resemble copper pennies. When present in skin or subcutaneous tissue, the cells are indicative of chromoblastomycosis.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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^ Apurba shastry review of microbiology and imminology p.436
^ Fungi From Different Substratesedited by J. K. Misra, Jalpa P. Tewari, Sunil Kumar Deshmukh, Csaba Vágvölgyi p.413
^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221348/

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