Appearance (description) of different macroscopic and microscopic pathophysiological types of inflammation and examples of their associated causes:
- serous – e.g. blister
- fibrinous – acute rhematic fever, ischaemic necrotic pericarditis
- purulent (liquefactive necrosis / pyogens) – folliculitis, furunculosis, carbuncle, cellulitis, erysipelas, lymphangitis
- membranous – Diphtheria, pseudomembranous colitis
- histiocytic – Typhoid (Salmonella typhus)
- interstitial / perivascular – viral, rickettsial, syphilitic
- granulomatous – Syphilis, fungal, berylliosis, foreign body, tuberculoid, sarcoid, cat scratch, lymphogranuloma venereum, leprosy, brucellosis
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