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Oral cavity

Infectious

Infectious mononucleosis

Reviewer: Patricia DeVilliers, D.D.S., M.S. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 3 October 2012, last major update August 2012
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Definition
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● Acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis with gray-white exudate, lymphadenopathy in neck
● Due to Epstein-Barr virus infection

Micro description
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● Tonsil - reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (polymorphous transformed lymphocytes) with extensive immunoblastic proliferation in sheets and nodules, marked atypia resembling Reed-Sternberg cells (Am J Surg Pathol 1987;11:122)

Micro images
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Peripheral blood lymphocytosis

   
Reactive lymphocytes

Negative stains
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● CD15, CD30

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