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Washington University Experience | DEVELOPMENTAL MALFORMATIONS | Encephalocele | 11A2-Encephalocele-Case-11-H-E-2.jpg
H&E stained slides of the "occipital-parietal cephalocele" show unremarkable squamous epithelium. There is an ill-defined collection of cells within the deep dermis showing small, round nuclei and abundant foamy pink cytoplasm characteristic of histiocytes intermixed with clusters and whorls of cells with more oval nuclei, reminiscent of meningothelial cells.(H&E)