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Ectopic adrenal gland tissue in inguinal hernia sac.

Iyengar V, Pittman DM

Department of Pathology, Kaiser Permanente, Kensington, MD 20895, USA. viyengar@pol.net

An unusual finding of adrenal cortical tissue in a routinely submitted specimen from an inguinal herniorrhaphy and how this may be related to the embryogenic process is described.

Published 16 July 2007 in Ann Diagn Pathol, 11(4): 291-2.
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