H&E stain with visible<unk> s in rheumatic heart disease. In pathology,<unk> s (or<unk>  giant cells) are cells associated with rheumatic heart disease. They are found in<unk>  bodies surrounding centres of fibrinoid necrosis. In comparison with Anitschkow cells their cytoplasm is more basophilic and can contain up to four nuclei.<unk>  believed that<unk>  giant cells were some type of connective or endothelial tissue. Today<unk> s are considered to be derived from cardiac myocytes rather than connective tissue cells.<unk> s were named after the German physician and pathologist Ludwig<unk> .
Aschoff cell
Buttock cell
Clue cell
Anitschkow cell
Hürthle cell
Cigar cell
Navicular cell
Touton giant cell