Dept. of Dermatology - University of Iowa College of Medicine

M. S. Stone and T. L. Ray

Decapitation Secretion

Apocrine secretion where part of the apocrine cell "pinches off" and is released into the lumen of the gland. Examples are low power (top) and high power (bottom) views of Syringocystadenoma Papilliferum.

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September, 1995

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