glandular tissue

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glandular tissue

A group of epithelial cells capable of producing secretions.

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The radiology resident also measured the axial diameter of the breast glandular tissue at the level of nipple.

Is gynecomastia related to the disease characteristics and prognosis in testicular germ cell tumor patients?

But the shape of visual patches which contain glandular tissue is always a long strip as shown in Figure 6.

Breast Mass Detection in Digital Mammogram Based on Gestalt Psychology

Although in the present study no neoplastic changes could be observed, the infiltration of the serosal and muscular layer by the glandular tissue and fibrosis was observed.

Phenotyping of Amphistomes, and Pathological, Hematological and Bile Biochemical Response to Gigantocotyle explanatum Infection in Buffaloes

An ultrasound examination was performed to evaluate the existence of glandular tissue and to exclude any pathologic mass in all cases.

Transsexual Mastectomy: Selection of Appropriate Technique According to Breast Characteristics

Pathological changes in the glandular tissue were investigated under light microscopy (Carl Zeiss Axio Scope A1, Gottingen, Germany).

Effect of Excess Iodide Intake on Salivary Glands in a Swiss Albino Mice Model

Dr Rezai elaborates: "Breasts are made up of fatty tissue, fibrous tissue, and glandular tissue. Someone is said to have dense breasts [on a mammogram] when they have more glandular and fibrous tissue and less fatty tissue.

Awareness is key to beating breast cancer

However, when the intermammary tissue consists of fibrous septa and glandular tissue rather than fat, excision of the tissue and subdermal suturing through small inframammary incision should be performed to avoid unsightly scars.[sup][2],[3] Midline vertical skin incisions over the sternum with lateral extension into the inframammary folds and various local flaps for repair should be avoided.

Correction of Congenital Symmastia with Macromastia: Report of a Rare Case and Devised Treatment Algorithm

2(a)--of glandular tissue near the nipple is not resolved, but that the permittivity (absolute) values are significantly higher around the nipple.

3D Microwave Tomography with Huber Regularization Applied to Realistic Numerical Breast Phantoms

First, the glands tend to be made up of relatively actively dividing cells that can mutate and become cancerous (the more glandular tissue present, the greater the risk).

Get smart about dense breasts: an expert radiologist and dense breast educators address specific questions that will arise in your counseling and care of women who are identified with dense breasts on mammography

An increase in MMP-2 in glandular tissue may lead to hydrolysis of tissue matrix components.

The role of MMP-2, MMP-9, and TIMP-1 in the pathogenesis of nasal polyps: Immunohistochemical assessment at eight different levels in the epithelial, subepithelial, and deep layers of the mucosa

The researchers determined the proportion of dense glandular tissue of the overall breast area.

Low breast density in mammography worsens breast cancer prognosis

4) and the ones seen by Meyrick & Reid (1970) in human bronchial glandular tissue, which may account for the scarcity of these glands in the rat, similar granules being discharged from surface cells.

Histology and Scanning Electron Microscopy of the Lower Respiratory Tract in the Adult Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)/ Histologia y Microscopia Electronica de Barrido de las Vias Respiratorias Inferiores en el Zorro Rojo Adulto (Vulpes vulpes)