In this section you will learn to recognize specific types of inflammatory cells and infiltrates in a histological setting. I am sure you will gain an appreciation for how different the histology will be in the diseased state. Cells and tissue morphology that you may feel quite familiar with, will have a substantially different appearance. After this exercise, you should be familiar with appearance and components of an acute and chronic inflammatory infiltrate, as well as the major actors in the repair process. You should also know the difference between an exudate and transudate. Although the slides for study are listed in numerical order, I recommend studying them in the following order: 27, 90, 48 and 19 first, then go to 9 and 139, then the chronic inflammatory conditions 1, 76 and 77, and finish with the repair cases 7, 43 and 59. Good luck!
 

Slide 1, Cryptococcal pneumonia.	Slide 1, Cryptococcal pneumonia.	Slide 7, healing fracture of bone.	Slide 9, pyloric ulcer.		Slide 19, acute erosive esophagitis.
Slide 19, acute erosive esophagitis.	Slide 27, gallbladder with acute and chronic inflammation	Slide 43, heart with myocardial infarction.	Slide 48. fibrinous pericarditis.		Slide 48, fibrinous pericarditis
Slide 59, colon with acute ulcerative colitis.	Slide 59, colon with acute ulcerative colitis.	Slide 76, lung with tuberculosis.	Slide 76, lung with tuberculosis.		Slide 77, lymph node with tuberculous granuloma.
Slide 90, acute meningitis.	Slide 139, acute appendicitis .	Normal Appendix	Normal Colon		Normal Gallbladder
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Normal Lymph Node	Normal heart	Normal lung	Inflammation Slides Overview

Mark Braun, MD braunm@indiana.edu
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