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 Features of adenocarcinoma:<ref name=pmid16273946>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Adsay | first1 = NV. | last2 = Bandyopadhyay | first2 = S. | last3 = Basturk | first3 = O. | last4 = Othman | first4 = M. | last5 = Cheng | first5 = JD. | last6 = Klöppel | first6 = G. | last7 = Klimstra | first7 = DS. | title = Chronic pancreatitis or pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma? | journal = Semin Diagn Pathol | volume = 21 | issue = 4 | pages = 268-76 | month = Nov | year = 2004 | doi =  | PMID = 16273946 }}</ref>
-*Random distribution of ductal structures,
+*Ductal architecture:
-*Irregular ductal contours,
+**Random distribution of ductal structures.
+**Irregular ductal contours.
+**"Naked ducts in fat"; ducts without surrounding pancreatic elements or fibrous tissue.
+**Ducts adjacent to arterioles.
 *Nuclear atypia:
 **Enlargement (>3 times the size of a lymphocyte).
 **Pleomorphism.
 **Distinct nucleoli.
-*Intraluminal necrotic cellular debris.
+**Hyperchromatic raisinoid nucleoli.
-*Hyperchromatic raisinoid nucleoli.
-*"Naked ducts in fat"; ducts without surrounding pancreatic elements or fibrous tissue.
-*Ducts adjacent to arterioles.
 *Generally assoc. with malignancy:
 **Perineural and vascular invasion (rare).
 **Mitosis.
+**Necrotic cellular debris (intraluminal).
 ==See also==