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*[http://media.photobucket.com/image/birbeck+granules+/cat_at_uw/Annotated%2520Remembrances/BirbeckGranules.jpg Birbeck granules (photobucket.com)]. | *[http://media.photobucket.com/image/birbeck+granules+/cat_at_uw/Annotated%2520Remembrances/BirbeckGranules.jpg Birbeck granules (photobucket.com)]. | ||
**Usually... only the handle of the tennis racket is well seen. | **Usually... only the handle of the tennis racket is well seen. | ||
==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> | |||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
!Tumour\Feature | |||
!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== | ==See also== | ||