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J Newman1, G N Antonakopoulos, R M Hicks
1Department of Histopathology, East Birmingham Hospital, UK.
Abstract:
Three nephrectomy specimens with transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the renal pelvis were thoroughly examined by both light and scanning electron microscopy. The tumours as well as the urothelium of the upper urinary tract were studied. In all three cases, extensive areas of the urothelium, even in places remote from the tumours, were found by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to be covered by pleomorphic microvilli. This suggests that there is a widespread failure of differentiation of the urothelium to a much greater extent than can be appreciated by conventional light microscopy.
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