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Apocrine Glands

Known as: Apocrine Gland, Gland, Apocrine, Glands, Apocrine 
Large, branched, specialized sweat glands that empty into the upper portion of a HAIR FOLLICLE instead of directly onto the SKIN.
National Institutes of Health

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2006
2006
Bilateral multiple axillary apocrine hidrocystomas associated with benign apocrine hyperplasia
Apocrine glands are most frequent in the axillae, groin, external auditory canal, eyelids and on the nipple. Apocrine… 
1994
1994
Apocrine Adenosis Within A Radial Scar: A Case of False Positive Breast Cytodiagnosis
Apocrine metaplasia is a common metaplastic change of the acinar epithelium of the breast lobules which is frequently associated… 
1993
1993
Cylindroma expresses immunohistochemical markers linking it to eccrine coil
Nerve growth factor, S‐100 protein, CD44, and CD34 have unique expressions in or surrounding eccrine coil hut are not found in… 
1991
1991
Diseases of the Apocrine Sweat Glands
Figure 29.1 demonstrates the apocrine sweat glands as well as the eccrine glands covered in the next chapter. The apocrine sweat… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Axilla skin biopsy: A reliable test for the diagnosis of Lafora's disease
Skin biopsies from the axilla were examined in 7 patients with clinical signs and symptoms of lafora's disease, in 9 relatives (7… 
1980
1980
Perianal apocrine gland adenoma.
A 59-year-old man had a pedunculate perianal tumor initially thought to be a condyloma acuminatum. Since it failed to respond to… 
1976
1976
Transmission and scanning electron microscopy of the human ceruminous apocrine gland. II. Myoepithelial cells.
The myoepithelial cells of the human ceruminous apocrine gland were observed with transmission and scanning electron microscopes… 
1961
1961
Mother and Daughter with Bilateral Congenital Amastia
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Highly Cited
1959
Highly Cited
1959
An electron microscopic study of the human axillary apocrine gland.
According to Kuno (1956) sweat glands were discovered by Purkinje in 1833, and described by his pupil Wendt. Almost… 
1936
1936
THE SUDORIPAROUS GLANDS: II. THE APOCRINE GLANDS
As early as 1846, Horner, 1 in describing the odoriferous (apocrine) glands stated: I have ventured to give this name to a layer… 
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