At some levels the caudal entorhinal area (CE) meets the dorsal-lateral entorhinal area (DLE), which can be quite confusing when looking at coronal sections. Both areas have large darkly stained layer II neurons and the only subtle difference is that the layer II cells in DLE tend to spread into the molecular layer, a feature not seen in CE. In addition, the deep and superficial delineation of the lamina dissecans is much more clear in CE than in DLE. Immunoreactivity for calbindin provides valuable additional information since CE shows strong staining almost exclusively in layer II, whereas in calbinding positive neuropil is also present in layer III of DLE.
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