Talk:Giant multinucleated cell

Merge proposal

From some Googling around (e.g. here and our own Granuloma) I gather that "giant multinucleated cell" and "Langhans giant cell" are synonyms, so that these two articles should be merged. The latter appears to be a more common designation, but I'm happy to leave the primary article title to experts in the area. --Lambiam 23:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Langhan's cells and Giant multinucleated cells are NOT synonyms... Langhan cells are a type of Giant nucleated cells with a horse shoe arrangement. Another type of Giant cells are Foreign body giant cells - obviously function in digesting foreign material... 64.17.194.212 (talk) 00:32, 5 November 2009 (UTC)Medical Student, Nov. 2009.[reply]

although different it is worth to merge - for the ease of the digestion of the subject.

Moving the merge tag from Langhans giant cell to Giant cell in line with the above anonymous comment. Zak (talk) 01:33, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

the word multinucleate giant cells are exclusively used for viral infections... not for tuberculosis... and this and langhan's type giant cell and foreign body giant cells are totally different. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.254.128.148 (talk) 00:59, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

All the more reason to merge all of those articles and clarify the differences —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.171.250 (talk) 08:20, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(Did this because the current Giant multinucleated cells article was only referring to its occurrence in tuberculosis. If this is a mistake, will be happy to revert and do something else.)Gilded Snail (talk) 02:28, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]