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 ==Malignant mesothelioma==
 {{Main|Malignant mesothelioma}}
-Several EM features can be useful to distinguish mesothelioma from adenocarcinoma:<ref name=pmid6287872>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Warhol | first1 = MJ. | last2 = Hickey | first2 = WF. | last3 = Corson | first3 = JM. | title = Malignant mesothelioma: ultrastructural distinction from adenocarcinoma. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 6 | issue = 4 | pages = 307-14 | month = Jun | year = 1982 | doi =  | PMID = 6287872 }}</ref>
+Several EM features can be useful to distinguish mesothelioma from adenocarcinoma as per Warhol ''et al'':<ref name=pmid6287872>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Warhol | first1 = MJ. | last2 = Hickey | first2 = WF. | last3 = Corson | first3 = JM. | title = Malignant mesothelioma: ultrastructural distinction from adenocarcinoma. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 6 | issue = 4 | pages = 307-14 | month = Jun | year = 1982 | doi =  | PMID = 6287872 }}</ref>
-{| class="wikitable sortable"
+*Microvillous length -- longer in mesothelioma.
-!Tumour\Feature
+*Quantity of intermediate filaments -- mesothelioma have more.
-!Length/diameter of microvilli
-!Intermediate filaments
-!Complexity of microvilli
-!Microvillous rootltes
-!Myelin figures
-|-
-|Mesothelioma
-| 11.9 +/-5.87
-| 2.8 +/-1.63
-| +/- high complexity
-| -
-| -
-|-
-|Adenocarcinoma
-| 5.87 +/-2.3
-| 0.4 +/- 0.61
-| not complex
-| -/+
-| -/+
-|}
 ==See also==