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. 2018 Dec 18;74(1):146–160. doi: 10.1111/his.13767

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Architectural patterns which may be challenging for grading: (A) well‐defined grade 3 medium‐sized glands transitioning to and intermingling with increasingly smaller‐sized glands, but still considered as grade 3, contrasting with (B) medium‐sized grade 3 glands with an abrupt transition to a cluster of ill‐formed (grade 4) glands and (C) medium‐sized well‐described grade 3 glands slowly transitioning into a larger field (>10 structures) of ill‐formed (grade 4) glands. In (D) small‐sized closely packed circumscribed glands surrounded by thin wisps of stroma, most consistent with grade 3 glands, (E) well‐circumscribed pale glands with flocculated eosinophilic lumen content and considerable cytonuclear atypia (compared to gland on the right side) and (F) pseudo‐rosetting pattern in an otherwise solid carcinoma field in a biopsy considered as grade 5 pattern at the ISUP 2014 consensus meeting.