Adrenal gland: 23 week fetus

 

 

Throughout fetal life the fetal cortex occupies most of the gland. Here, at 23 weeks, one sees a rim of definitive adult cortex

surrounding the fetal cortex. The migrating neuroblasts have arrived at or almost reached their final position in the medulla.

 

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