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Description: Sarcoidosis - Schaumann body Schaumnann bodies, sometimes called conchoidal bodies, are large concentric calcifications that form within the cytoplasm of giant cells in sarcoidosis and other granulomatous disorders and often contain refractile calcium oxalate crystals.Although usually intracytoplasmic they may, if numerous or very large, be extruded into the extracelular space.
Title: Sarcoidosis - Schaumann body 2
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