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A large thymic mass with persistent active tissue in an elderly cadaver

Thymus is an encapsulated organ having its bilateral origin from the third pharyngeal pouch. It appears to be a single organ but actually it is bilobed. It attains its maximum development at puberty and then it begins to involute. The parenchyma is replaced by adipocytes and lymphocyte production de...

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Autores principales: Tripathy, Prabhas Ranjan, Chaudhary, Binita, Gaikwad, Manisha Rajanand, Britto, Neethinathan Jacques
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Anatomists 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6449587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984460
http://dx.doi.org/10.5115/acb.2019.52.1.93