Thursday, April 3, 2014

Atypical cells with prominent nucleoli

Atypical cells with prominent Nucleoli

This is a feature of malignancy. Special stains may be necessary to determine the cell of origin, Melanomas may commonly show this feature and some lymphomas  and histiocytes in Rosai- Dorfman disease tend to have larger nuclei and more prominent nucleoli than in other histiocytoses.

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