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Definition / general | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) images | Positive stains | Electron microscopy descriptionCite this page: DePond WD. Yellow bodies. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/lymphnodesyellowbodies.html. Accessed January 17th, 2021.
Definition / general
- Also called Hamazaki-Wesenberg bodies
- More common in deep abdominal than superficial nodes
- At autopsy, present in 35% of mesenteric nodes and 11% of mediastinal nodes (J Clin Pathol 1979;32:52)
- No association with age, gender or disease
- May resemble yeast (Arch Pathol Lab Med 1987;111:555)
Microscopic (histologic) description
- Small, spindled structures within nodal sinuses or macrophages or lying free
Microscopic (histologic) images
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Mesenteric node shows histiocytes
and heavily stained round, oval and
spindled yellow bodies in a sinus
Positive stains
Electron microscopy description
- Appear to represent giant lysosomal residual bodies with hemosiderin or lipofuscin
