Ultrastructure of an intraocular lacrimal gland choristoma.
An intraocular lacrimal gland choristoma which was at first mistaken for a medulloepithelioma (diktyoma) was studied with the electron microscope. The tumour did not contain cells with neuronal and glial differentiation as expected in a medulloepithelioma but it did contain acini, ducts and dilated ducts or cysts. The tumour, in fact, bore much resemblance to the lacrimal gland, in that it contained electron-dense serous granules, and at times, a myoepithelial cell was detected at the base of an acinus. The ductal and cystic elements were lined by a single layer of cells or by stratified or pseudostratified epithelium. An interesting, unexpected feature was the occurrence of a myoid band (composed of thin filaments with focal densities along their course) under the cell membrane of the epithelial cells adjacent to the lumen of the ducts and cysts.
D000236:Adenoma / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002828:Choristoma / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002924:Ciliary Body / Q000473:pathology; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D007223:Infant; D007765:Lacrimal Apparatus; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D018241:Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive, Peripheral / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012590:Sclera / Q000473:pathology; D014604:Uveal Neoplasms / Q000648:ultrastructure