signet ring cell (castration cell)

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Introduction

Basophilic cells characterized by a large cytoplasmic vacuole that displaces the nucleus to the periphery of the cell giving the appearance of a signet ring.

Occurrence

Laboratory

More general terms

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.