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Pathologists are often required to examine normal ovaries. The wide range of structures in the normal ovary sometimes gives rise to diagnostic difficulties, and it is by no means uncommon for physiological cyclical changes to be interpreted as being of a pathological nature. It is, therefore, necessary for the histopathologist to appreciate the spectrum of morphological features that may be found in the normal ovary.
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Fox, H., Buckley, C.H. (1983). Ovary: Normal Appearances and Cyclical Changes. In: Atlas of Gynaecological Pathology. Current Histopathology, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7312-2_22
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