Schaumann体是结节病中常见的包涵体,但也可以在其他疾病中发现,如肺结核,慢性铍病和克罗恩病。组织病理学,这些物体表现为圆形至椭圆形的壳状嗜碱性钙化,通常被认为是溶酶体细胞器活性的残留物。
Schaumann bodies are the inclusion bodies usually seen in sarcoidosis, but can also be found in other conditions like tuberculosis, chronic beryllium diseases and Crohn\'s diseases. Histopathologically, these bodies appear as round to oval shell-like
basophilic calcifications usually considered to be as a residuum of lysosomal organelles activity.