Sometimes in pathology, a term will be used exclusively for one situation, and that’s it. Two phrases that come to mind are “starry sky pattern” (Burkitt lymphoma) and “cerebriform nucleus” (mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome). ... “Owl’s eye” belongs to the latter category of patterns in pathology images that are seen in multiple diseases. It can be used to describe the nuclei of cells infected by CMV (as in this question), and it can also be used to describe the nuclei of Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin lymphoma (CD15+ and CD30+ B-cells) (taken from this blog).
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Sometimes in pathology, a term will be used exclusively for one situation, and that’s it. Two phrases that come to mind are “starry sky pattern” (Burkitt lymphoma) and “cerebriform nucleus” (mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome). ... “Owl’s eye” belongs to the latter category of patterns in pathology images that are seen in multiple diseases. It can be used to describe the nuclei of cells infected by CMV (as in this question), and it can also be used to describe the nuclei of Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin lymphoma (CD15+ and CD30+ B-cells) (taken from this blog).