Chronic Inflammation

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Chronic Inflammation

• offending substance not removed by PMN
• recruitment of macrophages
• macrophages accumulate indigestible substances and undergo change to epithelioid cells and accumulate in granulomas

Causative Agents

• fungal infections
• Tuberculosis
• leprosy
• Schistosomiasis
• foreign materials
• Sarcoidosis

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