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Micropapillary urothelial carcinoma (view source)
Revision as of 18:39, 5 September 2018
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**Nipple-like structures without fibrovascular cores. | **Nipple-like structures without fibrovascular cores. | ||
**Quantity of micropapillary pattern (percentage) is variable.<ref name=pmid25673582/> | **Quantity of micropapillary pattern (percentage) is variable.<ref name=pmid25673582/> | ||
*Conventional [[urothelial carcinoma]] (typical). | *+/-Conventional [[urothelial carcinoma]] (typical). | ||
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*The invasive pattern of ''micropapillary urothelial carcinoma'' is nests of tumour cells with clefting to the surrounding stroma. | |||
*In other organs, [[adenocarcinoma]] would be in the differential diagnosis. It should be noted that [[adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder]] looks quite different than ''micropapillary urothelial carcinoma''. | *In other organs, [[adenocarcinoma]] would be in the differential diagnosis. It should be noted that [[adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder]] looks quite different than ''micropapillary urothelial carcinoma''. | ||