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Development; Normal Anatomy; Histology; Inflammatory Diseases

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Ear, Nose and Throat Histopathology

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The palatine tonsil is derived from the second pharyngeal pouch endoderm, which, like that of all the pharyngeal grooves, except the first, disappears early in development. A small recess, the tonsillar fossa, develops and the endodermal cells at its fundus proliferate. They are soon invaded by mesodermal cells and the closely associated cells of the two origins form the primordium of the palatine tonsil. A similar aggregation of mesodermal and endodermal cells is found on the first pharyngeal pouch, becoming the tubal tonsil, on the dorsum of the tongue, the lingual tonsil and on the dorsal pharyngeal wall, the adenoids. Thus the lymphoid/ epithelial conjunctions of Waldeyer’s ring are not specifically related to pharyngeal pouches alone, but surround the whole inlet of the foregut.

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  1. Department of Histopathology, UCL Medical School, Rockefeller Building, University Street, London, WC1E 6JJ, UK

    Leslie Michaels MD, FRCPath, FRCP(C), D Path, FCAP (Professor Emeritus, Honorary Consultant Pathologist)

  2. Royal Free and UCL Medical School, University of London, UK

    Leslie Michaels MD, FRCPath, FRCP(C), D Path, FCAP (Professor Emeritus, Honorary Consultant Pathologist)

  3. Royal National Throat, Nose nad Ear Hospital, London, UK

    Leslie Michaels MD, FRCPath, FRCP(C), D Path, FCAP (Professor Emeritus, Honorary Consultant Pathologist)

  4. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

    Henrik B. Hellquist MD, PhD, SAPath(Stockh), FCAP (Professor of Pathology, Chairman)

  5. Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

    Henrik B. Hellquist MD, PhD, SAPath(Stockh), FCAP (Professor of Pathology, Chairman)

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Michaels, L., Hellquist, H.B. (2001). Development; Normal Anatomy; Histology; Inflammatory Diseases. In: Ear, Nose and Throat Histopathology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0235-9_26

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