CYTOMORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE GIANT CELL LESIONS

Lim,  Chang-Youn; Chun,  Dong-Jin; Park,  Jae-Ho; Choi,  Poo-Pyoung

J Korean Dent Assoc > Volume 9(4); 1971 > Article

The Journal of The Korean Dental Association 1971;9(4):191-194.
Published online April 30, 1971.

거대 세포출현 병소부에 관한 세포학적 연구

임창윤¹, 전동진², 박재호³, 최부병⁴

^¹서울대학교 치과대학 구강병리학교실
^²서울대학교 치과대학 구강병리학교실
^³서울대학교 치과대학 구강병리학교실
^⁴서울대학교 치과대학 구강병리학교실

CYTOMORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE GIANT CELL LESIONS

Chang-Youn Lim¹, Dong-Jin Chun², Jae-Ho Park³, Poo-Pyoung Choi⁴

¹Department of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University
²Department of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University
³Department of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University
⁴Department of Oral Pathology, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University

Abstract

The authors have studied cytomorphologically on the gian cells appearing in the giant cell lesions which had been collected from the biopsies at the department of oral pathology, college of dentistry, Seoul National University. The results are as follows: 1. We can classify two types of giant cells and large sized giant cells which have foamy, large nuclei and prominent nucleoli, and small sized giant cells which have small, round and homogenous stained cytoplasm. 2. We can not see the phagocytosed materials, only can see the foamy microvacuoles in the cytoplasm of giant cells. 3. We can not see the mitotic figures, nore fused figures in giant cells. 4. Osteoclasts in the periphery of bone tissue reveal large and pale stained with H-E stain, giant cells on the granulation tissue and chronic inflammatory tissue reveal deeply stained with hematoxylin and prominent nuclei, but smaller than osteoclasts.