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==Hyaline cartilage== | ==Hyaline cartilage== | ||
Features:<ref name=Ref_EH2_178>{{Ref EH2|178}}</ref> | Features:<ref name=Ref_EH2_178>{{Ref EH2|178}}</ref> | ||
* | *Chondrocytes within small pockets (lacunae) of extracellular matrix. | ||
*Spherical nucleus. | **Chondrocytes: | ||
*Prominent nucleolus. | ***Spherical nucleus. | ||
* | ***Prominent nucleolus. | ||
* | ***Clear cytoplasm. | ||
**Extracellular matrix: | |||
***Blue-white appearance on [[H&E stain]] -- '''key feature'''. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 02:39, 31 December 2010
Cartilage is a type of connective tissue that does not commonly come across the pathologist's desk.
It comes in three flavours:[1]
- Hyaline cartilage.
- Fibrocartilage.
- Elastic cartilage.
Hyaline cartilage
Features:[2]
- Chondrocytes within small pockets (lacunae) of extracellular matrix.
- Chondrocytes:
- Spherical nucleus.
- Prominent nucleolus.
- Clear cytoplasm.
- Extracellular matrix:
- Blue-white appearance on H&E stain -- key feature.
- Chondrocytes:
See also
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Cormack, David H. (2001). Essential Histology (2nd ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 178. ISBN 978-0781716680.