Reed–Sternberg cell

Sternberg - Reed giant cells ( after the Austrian pathologist Carl Sternberg and Dorothy Reed of American pediatrician Mendenhall ) created by the merger of Hodgkin cells.

These are blasts with light nucleoplasm, bean-shaped nucleus and large nucleolus. The binuclear forms often show a mirror- image arrangement of the nucleoli with surrounding wide cytoplasm; therefore they are also referred to as the " owl eyes ".

Sternberg - Reed giant cells are monoclonal B- lymphocytes from the germinal center of lymph nodes.

They are proving to lymphoma, Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

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