The three paired abdominal glands, the kidney, the suprarenal gland, and the gonad arise in the embryo from a common fold which later serves to retain the urinary and genital primordia to the dorsal body wall. It is well known that groups of adrenal cortical cells (which may originate as part of the suprarenal primordium) are often found quite distant to the location of the definitive suprarena...

Thirty suprarenal glands (both right and left) of different gestational age groups were studied to see the cytoarchitecture using different stains. The present study was carried out in the department of Anatomy, Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh. The material for the study consisted of 30 spontaneously aborted human fetal specimens from 12th to 28th weeks of gestational ages. Th...