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<pathology> Small granulomas composed of macrophages, lymphocytes and multinucleate cells grouped around eosinophilic hyaline material derived from collagen. Characteristic of the myocarditis of rheumatic fever.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(22 Feb 2008)
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