title: Paraganglia in the human gallbladder.
abstract: Paraganglia found in the subserosa of nine of ten surgically removed gallbladders had morphologic features and staining characteristics similar to those of other sites. Although they were not difficult to locate in subserial sections, their sparseness and smallness explains the rarity with which they have been encountered in the routine histologic gallbladder examination. The strong, finely granular argyrophilia of the chief cell cytoplasm in all of the glomera studied offer a simple means of identifying them when only a portion of the structure is viewed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000166:cytology / Q000294:innervation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010234:Paraganglia, Nonchromaffin / Q000166:cytology*; D013194:Staining and Labeling