- Arias-Stella cells
- cells in the endometrial epithelium which have hyperchromatic enlarged nuclei; they appear to be hypersecretory and associated with chorionic tissue in an intrauterine or extrauterine site.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Arias-Stella cells
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