Dept. of Dermatology - University of Iowa College of Medicine

M. S. Stone and T. L. Ray

Epithelioid Cells

Cells derived from macrophages, seen in granulomas and characterized by a large usually oval, pale, vesicular nucleus with a clearly visible nuclear membrane. The cytoplasm is abundant, ill-defined and slightly eosinophilic. Example is a view of epithelioid cells in a naked granuloma of Sarcoidosis.

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September, 1995

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