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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrastruct Pathol. 2014 Sep 30;39(2):153–158. doi: 10.3109/01913123.2014.960542

Figure 1. Images of malignant mesothelioma from patient tissue samples.

Figure 1

(A) Light microscopic image of H&E-stained right chest wall biopsy material showing large cells with clear to eosinophilic cytoplasm and enlarged nuclei with prominent nucleoli, typical of an epithelial mesothelioma. (B) Light microscopic image of H&E-stained right kidney tumor tissue from the autopsy. Cells are large with clear cytoplasm, suggestive of a renal cell carcinoma or a malignant mesothelioma. (C and D) Transmission electron photomicrographs of the right chest wall biopsy showing ultrastructural features of mesothelioma including perinuclear tonofilaments (^), fragmented, elongated microvilli (*), and giant desmosomes (⇧).