Subserosa

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Subserosa
Identifiers
TA98A12.1.08.009
A05.4.01.008
A05.5.01.020
A05.6.01.003
A05.7.01.003
A05.8.01.053
A05.8.02.007
A07.1.02.004
A07.1.02.011
A08.3.01.009
A09.1.02.011
A09.1.03.024
A09.3.01.015
A10.1.02.004
TA22900, 2908, 2935, 2965, 3057, 3324, 3344, 3408, 3496, 3519, 3586, 3731, 3949
FMA45636
Anatomical terminology

The subserosa or tela subserosa, is a thin layer of tissue in the walls of various organs. It is a layer of connective tissue (usually of the areolar type) between the muscular layer (muscularis externa) and the serosa (serous membrane).

The subserosa has clinical importance particularly in cancer staging (for example, in staging stomach cancer[1] or uterine cancer).

The subserosa (sub- + serosa) is to a serous membrane what the submucosa (sub- + mucosa) is to a mucous membrane.

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