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Image: [http://pathology.mc.duke.edu/research/histo_course/mixed_saliv.jpg Mucinous/serous salivary gland (duke.edu)]. | Image: [http://pathology.mc.duke.edu/research/histo_course/mixed_saliv.jpg Mucinous/serous salivary gland (duke.edu)]. | ||
====Seminal vesicles==== | ====Seminal vesicles==== | ||
* | *Fern-like architecture - epithelial component clustered closely, looks like it connects. | ||
**Epithelium surrounded by a thick layer of muscle (>10 cells across ~80 microns). | **Epithelium surrounded by a thick layer of muscle (>10 cells across ~80 microns). | ||
*Lipofuscin (coarse cytoplasmic yellow granules approximately 1-2 micrometers) - '''key feature'''. | *Lipofuscin (coarse cytoplasmic yellow granules approximately 1-2 micrometers) - '''key feature'''. | ||
*Nucleoli - common. | *Nucleoli - common. | ||
*Nuclear inclusions - common. | *Nuclear inclusions - common. | ||
Notes: | |||
*The ''ejaculatory ducts'' have the same epithelium as the seminal vesicles.<ref name=pmid12657938>{{cite journal |author=Leroy X, Ballereau C, Villers A, ''et al.'' |title=MUC6 is a marker of seminal vesicle-ejaculatory duct epithelium and is useful for the differential diagnosis with prostate adenocarcinoma |journal=Am. J. Surg. Pathol. |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=519–21 |year=2003 |month=April |pmid=12657938 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | |||
Images: | Images: | ||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seminal_vesicle_low_mag.jpg SV - showing fern-like architecture (WC)]. | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seminal_vesicle_high_mag.jpg SV - looking vaguely like to prostate adenocarcinoma (WC)]. | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seminal_vesicle_intermed_mag.jpg SV - looks a bit like prostate but lumina too big (WC)]. | |||
*[http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/19716/2016/1/cmrsvlm3.GIF SV (udel.edu)]. | *[http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/19716/2016/1/cmrsvlm3.GIF SV (udel.edu)]. | ||