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| Medium power view of normal adipose tissue - for comparison with a liposarcoma |
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| Medium power view of normal adipose tissue - for comparison with a liposarcoma
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•A medium power view of normal adipocytes.
•Notice the typically polygonal appearance of a single
adipocyte, encircled by the many green arrows.
•Adipocytes normally look empty because most of their
structure is composed of a single large globule of fat
that is extracted by the fixation, embedding and
sectioning processes.
•The only structure that is visualized in standard H&E
staining is a thin rim of cytoplasm that lies just
beyond the tips of the green pointers.
•Embedded within this thin rim of cytoplasm is a highly
condensed, uniformly dense staining nucleus.
•Two typical adipocyte nuclei are indicated at the tips
of the black pointers.
| | (Description By:T.V.Rajan, M.D. )
| | (Image Contrib. by:T.V.Rajan, M.D. UCHC )
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