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Intraluminal crystalloids in malignant salivary gland tumours

Electron microscopic and X-ray microanalytic studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Jae Y. Ro
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor InstituteHouston, Texas.
Bruce Mackay
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor InstituteHouston, Texas.
John G. Batsakis*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor InstituteHouston, Texas.
Joiner Cartwright Jr
Affiliation:
Department of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
*
John G. Batsakis, M.D., Department of Pathology, The University of Texas System Cancer Center, M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas 77030, U.S.A.

Abstract

The ultrastructural, X-ray microanalytical, histochemical and immunocytochemi-cal features of intraluminal crystalloids found in adenocarcinomas of the parotid gland have been studied. The crystalloids, putatively derived from an abnormal crystalization of salivary duct proteins, are considerably different from the crystalloids found in normal parotid glands, pleomorphic adenomas, and sialocysts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1987

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