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**May be seen in women.
**May be seen in women.


===Microscopy===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=Ref_GUP549>{{Ref GUP|549}}</ref>
Features:<ref name=Ref_GUP549>{{Ref GUP|549}}</ref>
*Indistinct cell borders
#Nucleoli - '''key feature'''.
*Mitoses - common.
#Vesicular nuclei (clear, empty appearing nuclei) - '''key feature'''.
*Nuclei overlap.
#Nuclei overlap.
*Vesicular nuclei (clear, empty appearing nuclei) - '''key feature'''.
#[[Necrosis]] - common.
*Nucleoli - '''key feature'''.
#*Not commonly present in seminoma.
*Variable architecture:
#Indistinct cell borders
**Tubulopapillary.
#Mitoses - common.
**Glandular.
#Variable architecture:
**Solid.  
#*Tubulopapillary.
**Embryoid bodies - ball of cells in surrounded by empty space on three sides.
#*Glandular.
*[[Necrosis]] - common.
#*Solid.  
**Not present in seminoma.
#*Embryoid bodies - ball of cells in surrounded by empty space on three sides.


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Images:
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embryonal_carcinoma_high_mag.jpg Embryonal carcinoma - high mag. (WC)].
*Set 1:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embryonal_carcinoma_intermed_mag.jpg Embryonal carcinoma - intermed. mag. (WC)].
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embryonal_carcinoma_-_very_high_mag_-_cropped.jpg Embryonal carcinoma - very high mag. - cropped (WC)].
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embryonal_carcinoma_low_mag.jpg Embryonal carcinoma - low mag. (WC)].
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embryonal_carcinoma_-_high_mag.jpg Embryonal carcinoma - high mag. (WC)].
*Set 2:
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embryonal_carcinoma_high_mag.jpg Embryonal carcinoma - high mag. (WC)].
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embryonal_carcinoma_intermed_mag.jpg Embryonal carcinoma - intermed. mag. (WC)].
**[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embryonal_carcinoma_low_mag.jpg Embryonal carcinoma - low mag. (WC)].


===DDx===
===DDx===
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