Diagnosis: Adenocarcinoma
with atrophic features.
Comment: The
clue for the diagnosis of adenocarcinoma is presence of usual
neoplastic acini
as seen in Fig. 5, otherwise the diagnosis is extremely difficult. The
main
differential diagnosis is partial atrophy. Immunohistochemistry may be
misleading
because in partial atrophy there is spacing of basal cells and the
acini may be
negative for high-molecular cytokeratins. In this particular case usual
adenocarcinoma
was also present in other sections of the biopsy.
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