Epithelioid and Giant Cells in Sarcoidosis

Fully developed epithehoid cells were not identified in lavage specimens (Danel et al. 1983). 

Schaumann bodies are residual bodies of hetero-phagic mycobacterial derivation (Ang and Mos-covic 1996). They immunostained intensely for the 

Tenascin expression in sarcoid appeared much less prominent than in cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (Wallace et al. 1995). 

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