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Occasional minute rounded yellow nodules may be seen within the adrenal cortex. The brown patches of ceroid may also be seen grossly.
The lesions found in the adrenals of mice that are thymectomized at birth and kept under specific pathogen-free (SPF) or germ-free conditions to old age consist of (a) ceroid deposits in the cortex, (b) subcapsular spindle-cell hyperplasia, and (c) nodular cortical hyperplasia. The first two are described elsewhere in this volume (pp. 60 and 66); Nodular cortical hyperplasia is described in this section
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Zak, F. (1983). Nodular Cortical Hyperplasia, Adrenal, Thymectomized Mouse. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D., Capen, C.C. (eds) Endocrine System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96720-7_19
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