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*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carotid_body_tumour_2_low_mag.jpg Carotid body tumour - low mag. (WC)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carotid_body_tumour_2_low_mag.jpg Carotid body tumour - low mag. (WC)]. | ||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carotid_body_tumour_2_high_mag.jpg Carotid body tumour - high mag. (WC)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carotid_body_tumour_2_high_mag.jpg Carotid body tumour - high mag. (WC)]. | ||
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*[[Adrenal cortical carcinoma]] - ''[[pheochromocytoma versus adrenal cortical carcinoma]]''. | |||
=====Pheochromocytoma versus adrenal cortical carcinoma===== | |||
*Pheochromocytoma and adrenal cortical carcinoma overlap histologically.<ref name=pmid20154585>{{Cite journal | last1 = Sangoi | first1 = AR. | last2 = McKenney | first2 = JK. | title = A tissue microarray-based comparative analysis of novel and traditional immunohistochemical markers in the distinction between adrenal cortical lesions and pheochromocytoma. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 34 | issue = 3 | pages = 423-32 | month = Mar | year = 2010 | doi = 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181cfb506 | PMID = 20154585 }}</ref> | |||
Favour pheochromocytoma: | |||
*Small chickenwire-pattern blood vessels, nests, salt-and-pepper chromatin, red blood cell extravasation. | |||
Favour adrenal cortical carcinoma: | |||
*Nucleolus, sheeting. | |||
====Malignant pheochromoctyoma==== | ====Malignant pheochromoctyoma==== |
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