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. 2019 Dec 30;19:1270. doi: 10.1186/s12885-019-6488-1

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Morphology of Burkitt lymphoma. Giemsa-stained FNA smear from an eBL tumour with cells showing characteristic cytoplasmic vacuoles (white arrows) and a cell with a prominent mitotic figure (black arrow) (a). Haematoxylin-eosin-stained FFPE tumour tissue section (20× magnification) showing cells with mitotic figures (arrows) and characteristic “starry sky” staining due to weakly stained macrophages among numerous densely stained tumour cells (b). Immunohistochemistry-stained FFPE tumour tissue section showing prominent C-MYC expression (brown) (c)