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mammary acini

Wednesday 14 October 2020

mammary acinus

Variants

 dilatation / dilated acini
 undulating contours
 unfolded
 coalescing acini
 lining :

  • lined by a single epithelial cell layer of columnar cells
  • lined by a single epithelial cell layer, usually of cuboidal cells or apocrine cells
  • no atypia : small nuclei , no nucleoli
  • or atypia : large nuclei , nucleoli / nucleolation

 intralobular connective tissue fibrotic

See also

 mammary lobule / mammary lobules