title: A surface ultrastructure study of ganglia and digital mucous cysts.
abstract: Three digital mucous cysts and three dorsal wrist ganglia were studied by light and scanning electron microscopy. Both exhibited the same findings, namely a porous network of collagenous fibers forming the wall and a fibrillated inner surface composed of a random arrangement of collagen fibers. An intermittent thin membrane was observed on the inner surface, but no evidence of a cellular lining was apparent. This anatomic study lends support to a shared cause.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo.
authors.forename: R T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Loder
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D003560:Cysts / Q000473:pathology*; D005385:Fingers; D006801:Humans; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009093:Mucus; D013581:Synovial Cyst / Q000473:pathology*; D014953:Wrist