Owl's eye appearance
The term owl's eye appearance, also known as owl's eye sign, is used to describe a pattern resembling the shape of a real owl's eye that is found in the study of histology, radiology, and pathology cases. The pattern is used to analyze symptoms in patients within the medical field.
They may refer to:
- Cells with perinuclear vacuolization around centrally located pyknotic nuclei, such as typically seen in flat warts.
- Owl's eye appearance of inclusion bodies, which is highly specific for cytomegalovirus infection.
- Owl's eye appearance of the entire nucleus – a finding in Reed–Sternberg cells in individuals with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Owl's eye appearance of the Lentiform nucleus of the basal ganglia on head CT scan images in individuals with cerebral hypoxia.
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