Papillary cystadenoma of the lacrimal caruncle.

نویسنده

  • C H Greer
چکیده

The adenoma, which was sharply circumscribed but not encapsulated, consisted in part of radiallyorientated, slender, anastomosing papillary processes clothed by double-layered eosinophilic epithelium (Fig. 2). The basal cells of this epithelium were polygonal and relatively small with round nuclei, while the surface cells were tall and cylindrical in shape with conspicuous cell boundaries, granular eosinophilic cytoplasm, and oval nuclei Iying near the free borders of the cells (Fig. 3).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The British journal of ophthalmology

دوره 53 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1959