nbme20/Block 1/Question#21
A 75-year-old woman comes to the physician because ...
Multinucleated giant cells and neutrophil infiltrates
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other identifying terms for herpes: Single dermatome (does not cross the midline), painful (burning and itching),and lesions in multiple stages.
+1 2019-06-03T03:06:37Z
redvelvet
and why neutrophile infiltration, is it a thing? or just a distracting thing?
+ 2019-06-12T20:35:30Z
to snoo-finity ... and beyond!
submitted by hayayah(244), 2019-05-14T12:54:57Z
This is an example of Shingles. Herpes simplex and herpes zoster viruses cause abnormal cell division in epidermal cells, and this creates multinucleated giant cells.
A Tzank smear showing multinucleated giant cells is characteristic of Varicella Zoster Virus infections. (HSV will have similar findings).