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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 12.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Surg Pathol. 2009 Apr 29;19(3):335–341. doi: 10.1177/1066896909333511

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Examples of angiogenesis in normal, nonproliferative ducts (A), usual ductal hyperplasia (B), and high-grade ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (C) are shown. In normal ducts, only a few vessels are visible in the surrounding stroma (A). In this example, 10 vessels in a surrounding 20× field were counted. Increasing numbers of small vessels are apparent in the stroma surrounding the hyperplasia (B) and the DCIS (C). The vessel counts were 20 and 26 in a 20× field surrounding the hyperplasia and the DCIS, respectively (anti-CD31 with hematoxylin counterstain; original magnification 200×).