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Ectopic Thymus, Thyroid, Rat

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Endocrine System

Part of the book series: Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals ((LABORATORY))

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Thymic rests are rarely large enough to be seen grossly. The identity of those few grossly visible nodules must be confirmed microscopically; thus, gross diagnosis is virtually impossible.

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  1. Mountainside, New Jersey, USA

    George A. Parker D.V.M.

  2. Rhone Poulenc Rorer, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA

    Marion G. Valerio D.V.M.

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  1. ILSI Research Foundation, Harvard Medical School, 1126 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20036, USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus)

  2. Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 1925 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH, 43210-1093, USA

    Charles C. Capen D.V.M., Ph.D. (Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology and Chairman, Professor of Endocrinology) (Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology and Chairman, Professor of Endocrinology)

  3. Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, 30625, Hannover, Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M.D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

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Parker, G.A., Valerio, M.G. (1996). Ectopic Thymus, Thyroid, Rat. In: Jones, T.C., Capen, C.C., Mohr, U. (eds) Endocrine System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60996-1_26

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