32. Granuloma. Granulomatous inflammation: Difference between revisions

Created page with "A granuloma is a circumscribed chronic inflammation with many activated macrophages and lymphocytes clustered around pathogens that can’t be broken down. This is the way of our immune system to trap these kinds of pathogens, so they don’t spread further. === Causes === Like mentioned above, some pathogens can resist being phagocytosed or degraded inside the phagocytes, and therefore will the activated macrophages cluster around it. Some macrophages in a granuloma wi..."