Aberrant lacrimal gland within the tarsal plate presenting as hyperlacrimation
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Aberrant intra-ocular lacrimal gland tissue.
THE occurrence of aberrant lacrimal gland tissue within the eye is a great rarity and presents problems of diagnostic and embryological interest. A search of the literature has revealed only three reports of this condition. The first was that of Puech (1887), who briefly described an adenoma of the choroid in an adult female: it had the microscopic characteristics of lacrimal gland tissue, and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eye
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0950-222X,1476-5454
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1999.148