Choristoma is a congenital tumor of tissues not normally present in the involved area. Lacrimal gland choristoma or ectopic lacrimal gland tissue is an uncommon lesion of the eye that can be seen in ...

Human lacrimal glands can be successfully imaged using optical coherence tomography (OCT), a new study shows. The images did not provide a way to distinguish healthy eyes from those with dry eye ...

An 80-year-old lady was referred to the Ocular Oncology service in June 2000. She had an 8-month history of painless progressive proptosis of the left globe and complained of a 2-month history of ...

IN 1892 Mikulicz 1 described a case of benign, asymptomatic, symmetric enlargement of the lacrimal and salivary glands. Microscopical examination of excised portions of the glands disclosed atrophy of ...

Organ replacement regenerative therapy has been proposed as having the potential to enable the replacement of organs that have been damaged by disease, injury or aging. A research group signals a ...

The eye's lacrimal gland is small but mighty. This gland produces moisture needed to heal eye injuries and clear out harmful dust, bacteria and other invaders. The eye's lacrimal glands can be ...

Introduction: Primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS) is a systemic autoimmune disease that mainly affects the salivary and lacrimal glands, leading to their progressive destruction. Objectives: The primary ...

This image shows a confocal image of a mouse lacrimal-gland organoid with the tear product Lcn2 labelled in red, showing that the organoids make tears. (Yorick Post, Hubrecht Institute) (CN) --- ...

Stem-cell-derived organoids that swell up with tears could shed light on the biology of crying and dry-eye disease, suggests a study publishing March 16 in the journal Cell Stem Cell. Although ...