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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Virchows Arch. 2010 Oct 8;457(6):643–649. doi: 10.1007/s00428-010-0978-5

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

In areas where the infiltrative units are smaller, tangential cut of the vacuolated glands may give the impression of individual cell infiltration mimicking diffuse infiltrative-type (“poorly cohesive cell” or “signet-ring” cell) carcinoma; however, the presence of larger cohesive glandular elements establish the diagnosis that this is merely the vacuolated variant of ductal adenocarcinoma