Cartilage

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Cartilage is a type of connective tissue that does not commonly come across the pathologist's desk.

It comes in three flavours:[1]

  1. Hyaline cartilage.
  2. Fibrocartilage.
  3. Elastic cartilage.

See also

References

  1. Young, Barbara; Lowe, James S.; Stevens, Alan; Heath, John W.; Deakin, Philip J. (2000). Wheaters Functional Histology (4th ed.). Churchill Livingstone. pp. 173-5. ISBN 978-0004881973.