Okay, I'm going to correct the typos in the report and then if you have additional questions you can wiki things
Microscopic Discription: SQ masses, Lt thorax; Sections of three large masses are examined. All three masses are histologically similar and will be described together. The dermis and subcutis are expanded by discrete but unencapsulated, densely cellular, and centrally
necrotic masses composed infiltrates of macrophages, plasma cells, neutrophils, lymphocytes, and fewer eosinophila and mast cells. Many of the largest macrophages have abundant
frothy cytoplasm filled with discrete round
vacuoles/globules containing an eosinophilic round core (phagocytized cellular debris or possible organisms).
The reports from Antech/other companies always come back with a few and it's really annoying to try to google "trothy vacuoles" and get nothing
Basically what this means is there are pockets of cells, that don't have a clear capsule around them, with dead tissue in the center and lots of all the body's inflammatory cells sent there. The macrophages were eating something (they're the cleaner-uppers of the body), but they're not sure what.
So they're thinking either something like a foxtail, thorn, piece of stick, etc. got lodged in his skin and there was an inflammatory reaction around it since it's a foreign body. Or there was a fungal infection locally with the same thing. Nothing sounds neoplastic since they didn't state that any of the cells looks morphologically abnormal or anything along those lines.
Now they want to use different stains to see if they can get any bugs. It's good that Eric is doing the extra tests. I hope that helps, I think you can breathe easy - this looks like GOOD news to me!
