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necrosis

Death or decay of tissue in a particular part of the body, usually due to bacterial poisoning or loss of local blood supply.



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Histology of the deep biopsy specimen identified features of granulomatous inflammation and palisading epithelioid cells, Langhans' giant cells, lymphocytes, and a few neutrophils with small foci of caseous necrosis (figure 1).
The left upper lobe lesion biopsy showed granulomatous inflammation with caseous necrosis consistent with tuberculosis.
Two of the three had yellow-tan, caseous necrosis of the palatine tonsils and multiple caseous yellow-tan plaques, 2- to 10-mm in diameter, on the mucosal surfaces of the esophagus, corpus, and pars pylorica.
 
 
 
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