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English:
This is one of the better differentiated areas, showing a flat sheet with prominent honeycombing. The disorganization, nuclear overlapping, and lack of uniform nuclear spacing provides a clue that is this adenocarcinoma (as opposed to non-neoplastic duct epithelium). However, if all I had was a paucicellular specimen consisting of a few such sheets, I would likely back off and call it nothing higher than "suspicious" for adenocarcinoma. Fortunately from a diagnostic standpoint, all of the other clinical, radiographic, and cytological findings pointed overwhelmingly at a diagnosis of malignancy, which made this case more straighforward than it could have been with a meager specimen and inadequate clinical and radiographic information.
Pancreatic adenocarcinomas can be very well differentiated, a fact that raises the risk of both false-positive and false-negative diagnoses. It is important to secure a good specimen (which requires immediate assessment by a pathologist or cytotechnologist during the procedure), as well as accurate and complete clinical info. In most freestanding imaging centers, with no on-site pathology coverage, these aspects are often ignored. I strongly recommend that patients have radiographically-directed biopsies performed
only
in facilities with pathology coverage on site.
العربية:
تُظهر الخزعة بالإبرة للسرطانة الغدية البنكرياسية المتمايزة ورقة مسطحة مع نخاريب بارزة، يوفر اختلال التنظيم وتداخل الأنوية ونقص التساوي في تباعد الأنوية دليلًا على كون العينة سرطانة غدية (على عكس ظهارة القناة اللاورمية).
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Source | Adenocarcinoma of Pancreas, FNA |
Author | Ed Uthman from Houston, TX, USA |
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