For years, it was believed that a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament — the band of dense connective tissue inside the knee ...

She suggested that women with dense breasts talk to their doctors about other screening options, like MRIs or ultrasounds. Breast tissue is made up of fibrous connective tissue, glandular tissue, and ...

In 2018, the same research team demonstrated the existence of these fluid-filled spaces, which they dubbed the interstitium, challenging conventional wisdom that the space between cells is dense ...

Tendons are tough, inelastic bands of connective tissue formed of a dense, highly organized matrix of parallel collagen fibres that is maintained by resident tenocytes. Tendons attach skeletal ...

In the adjacent connective tissue, there was a moderately dense lymphoplasmacytic and neutrophilic inflammatory infiltrate, with small numbers of foamy macrophages. Figure 3: Photomicrographs of ...