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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Pathol. 2009;4:49–70. doi: 10.1146/annurev.pathol.4.110807.092158

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Histologic features of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The prototypic HNSCC is characterized by nests of squamous cells with pink cytoplasm, intercellular bridges and keratin pearl formation set in a background of stromal fibrosis (a). Subtypes of HNSCC include the basaloid variant (b), the spindle-cell variant (c), and the papillary variant (d ).