A granuloma is a site of chronic inflammation, usually triggered by persistent infectious agents or non-degradable foreign bodies, featuring a central area of macrophages surrounded by T lymphocytes.
Un granuloma es un sitio de inflamación crónica, generalmente desencadenado por agentes infecciosos persistentes o cuerpos extraños no degradables, con un área central de macrófagos rodeada de linfocitos T.
| Front | A site of chronic inflammation usually triggered by persistent infectious agents such as mycobacteria or by a nondegradable foreign body. These inflammatory sites have a central area of macrophages, often fused into multinucleate giant cells, surrounded by T lymphocytes |
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| Back | granuloma |
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