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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 10.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2010 Mar;251(3):470–476. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181cf8a19

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

The 2 major pathologic types of invasive adenocarcinomas arising in the setting of IPMN. Tubular adenocarcinoma (A) is composed of variably complex tubular glands associated with a desmoplastic stromal response, similar to conventional pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. The basic architexture of colloid carcinoma (B) is a “muconodular” type of invasion characterized by well-defined pools of dissecting mucin, some of which contain floating malignant epithelial cells.