Pacinian corpuscles

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Pacinian corpuscles is a benign nerve thingy. They may form a benign tumour - very rarely.^[1]

Microscopic

Features:

Nerve with onion skin-like layering.
Well-circumscribed.

Images:

References

↑ Fletcher CD, Theaker JM (September 1989). "Digital pacinian neuroma: a distinctive hyperplastic lesion". Histopathology 15 (3): 249–56. PMID 2807183.
↑ URL: http://www.esg.montana.edu/esg/kla/ta/touch.html. Accessed on: 18 November 2010.
↑ URL: http://download.videohelp.com/vitualis/med/his_pic_integument.htm. Accessed on: 18 November 2010.

[pmid2807183-1] Fletcher CD, Theaker JM (September 1989). "Digital pacinian neuroma: a distinctive hyperplastic lesion". Histopathology 15 (3): 249–56. PMID 2807183.

[2] URL: http://www.esg.montana.edu/esg/kla/ta/touch.html. Accessed on: 18 November 2010.

[3] URL: http://download.videohelp.com/vitualis/med/his_pic_integument.htm. Accessed on: 18 November 2010.

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Pacinian corpuscles

Microscopic

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