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Fig. 2 | Diagnostic Pathology

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From: Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma arising from the uterine corpus in a postmenopausal female: a surgical case challenging the genuine diagnosis on a cytology specimen

Fig. 2

Microscopic examination of the transvaginal brushing cytology specimen from the uterine mass (uterine embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma). a The cytologic specimen contained several individual cells or small clusters of atypical tumor cells having hyperchromatic round to oval nuclei, inconspicuous nucleoli, and pleomorphic and occasionally characteristic unipolar “tadpole”-shaped (inset) cytoplasm, in a background of severe necrosis and many degenerated squamous cells. Bar = 25 μm. b Retrospectively thorough examination could find out cytoplasmic cross-striations-like structures (arrowheads) in one of atypical spindle-shaped tumor cells. Bar = 25 μm

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Diagnostic Pathology

ISSN: 1746-1596

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