Inflammation

Question 1

what magnification do we examine an inflammation slide under?

Answer 1

low power

Question 2

what are common causes of non-diagnostic samples?

Answer 2

1. inadequate cellularity
2. excessive blood contamination
3. ruptured cells
4. sampling error

Question 3

what is inflammation?

Answer 3

a normal physiologic response to tissue damage or invasion of microorganisms

Question 4

what is the action of neutrophils when they first arrive to inflammation?

Answer 4

phagocytize dead tissue and organisms, and phagocytize until full and cells die

Question 5

what cells arrive after neutrophils to the site of inflammation?

Answer 5

macrophages

Question 6

what are macrophages most useful for at an inflammation site?

Answer 6

cleaning up other dead cells

Question 7

what is an inflammatory response in cytology characterized by?

Answer 7

presence and ratio WBCs

Question 8

what are the categories of inflammation?

Answer 8

1. suppurative
2. granulomatous
3. pyogranulomatous
4. eosinophilic
5. lymphocytic

Question 9

which category of inflammation would have a large number of neutrophils?

Answer 9

suppurative

Question 10

which category of inflammation would be considered as inflammation or infection?

Answer 10

suppurative

Question 11

which category of inflammation would have a significant amount of macrophages and only a few neutrophils?

Answer 11

granulomatous

Question 12

which category of inflammation would be the presence of foreign body or fungus?

Answer 12

granulomatous

Question 13

which category of inflammation would have many of both neutrophils and macrophages?

Answer 13

pyogranulomatous

Question 14

which category of inflammation would be the presence of foreign bodies, and chronic inflammation/infection?

Answer 14

pyogranulomatous

Question 15

which category of inflammation would have >10% eosinophils with neutrophils?

Answer 15

eosinophilic

Question 16

which category of inflammation would represent a hypersensitivity like insect bites?

Answer 16

eosinophilic

Question 17

which category of inflammation would have a primary population of lymphocytes and often small numbers of mott and plasma cells?

Answer 17

lymphocytic

Question 18

which category of inflammation would be from an antigenic/immune stimulation?

Answer 18

lymphocytic

Question 19

what kind of neutrophil degeneration would be swollen, ragged nucleus w/o intact nuclear membrane?

Answer 19

karyolysis

Question 20

which neutrophil degeneration would have cell fragmentation, and small darkly stained distinct clumps of nucleus?

Answer 20

karyorrhexis

Question 21

which neutrophil degeneration would have small, condensed, dark nucleus?

Answer 21

pyknosis

Question 22

how would you determine if a sample is septic?

Answer 22

if the bacteria is intracellular

Question 23

how would you determine if a sample is non-septic?

Answer 23

if the bacteria is extracellular