label: Tzanck smear with multinucleated giant cells
label_lc: tzanck smear with multinucleated giant cells
description: "Tzanck smear demonstrates multinucleated giant cells, a sign that is suggestive for herpetic infections. Such smears are taken from skin lesions and display multinucleated cells with ground glass nuclei, nuclear moulding, and margination of nuclear chromatin typical of herpes simplex and varicella infection."