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Conjunctival mucoepidermoid carcinoma: clear cell variant.
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is a rare conjunctival neoplasm that is a common malignancy in the salivary glands. In the conjunctiva it often mimics squamous cell carcinoma. Histologically the tumors are believed to arise from pluripotential basal cells and, possibly, mucussecreting elements, and therefore are composed of mucus-secreting cells intermixed with epidermoid cells. The clear cell variant...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ophthalmology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0161-6420
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.01.016