ruptured follicular cyst
Histologic Features
- A dense, diffuse infiltrate of histiocytes, multinucleated histiocytes, and neutrophils as well as plasma cells and lymphocytes around remnants of follicular epithelium and fragments of cyst content
- Many multinucleated giant histiocytes containing squames in their cytoplasm
- Extensive extravasation of red blood cells
- A rim of lymphocytes at the outer zone
- Fibrotic compressed collagen bundles at the periphery
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