Glioblastoma multiforme with gra

uploaded on: Apr 04, 2009
by: jdmiles

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Granular differentiation and malignant astrocytic tumors may resemble macrophages on intraoperative smear preparations. Macrophages generally demonstrate more foamy cytoplasm, while granular cells demonstrate coarse eosinophilic granularity such as is seen here. The cytoplasm of a tumor cell is indicated by the unnecessarily large green arrow.

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