1. Lacrimal Sac Septum.
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Takahashi, Yasuhiro, Nakano, Takashi, Asamoto, Ken, Ikeda, Hiroshi, Iwaki, Masayoshi, and Kakizaki, Hirohiko
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LACRIMAL apparatus diseases ,LACRIMAL apparatus ,DEAD ,DACRYOCYSTORHINOSTOMY ,COMPUTED tomography ,MAGNETIC resonance imaging - Abstract
A right orbit was exenterated from a male cadaver that was 85 years of age at death. It was microscopically shown for the first time that the lacrimal sac septum divided the lumen into two spaces. It consisted of fibrous tissue with a cavernous structure and was lined with stratified columnar epithelium similar to the lacrimal sac wall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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