| Normal (eccrine) sweat gland
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Etiology
•N/A
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Pathogenesis
•N/A,
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Epidemiology
•N/A
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General Gross Description
•N/A
•Examples:
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General Microscopic Description
•Eccrine sweat glands are distributed over the entire body.
•They are composed of a long duct and a coiled secretory
portion in the deep dermis or subdermis.
•The secretory portion has two kinds of cells, dark
cells and light cells.
•The precise nature of these two cells has not been
completely worked out.
•The duct is lined by two layers of cuboidal cells and
traverses the epidermis to empty on to the surface of
the skin.
•Examples:
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Clinical Correlation
•N/A
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References
Bloom and Fawcett: A textbook of Histology. 12th
Edition. New York: Chapman & Hall. 1994. pp 548
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| Normal (eccrine) sweat gland
| | Synopsis by: T.V.Rajan, M.D., Ph.D. (T01330M00100)[570]
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