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**May be difficult to see - especially if light intensity is low. | **May be difficult to see - especially if light intensity is low. | ||
***One should not use 400x to look for nucleoli (it is a waste of time + you risk overcalling something benign). | ***One should not use 400x to look for nucleoli (it is a waste of time + you risk overcalling something benign). | ||
**If I see three good nucleoli in a gland I'm usually confident it is cancer. | **If I see three good nucleoli in a gland and the architecture is abnormal, I'm usually confident it is cancer. | ||
*Loss of basal cells - diagnostic feature. | *Loss of basal cells - diagnostic feature. | ||
**Like in breast pathology (where one looks for loss of myoepithelial cells) - this may be difficult to see. | **Like in [[breast pathology]] (where one looks for loss of myoepithelial cells) - this may be difficult to see. | ||
Notes: | Notes: | ||