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BREAST CYTOPATHOLOGY

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Metastatic Tumors 147

Figure 5.11. Metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma. Note the isolated

tumor cells with naked nuclei associated with fragments of

amorphous material consistent with amyloid (left). An immunostain

for calcitonin is strongly positive (right). (Smear, Papanicolaou.)

Figure 5.12. Metastatic malignant melanoma. Isolated, singly placed

pleomorphic malignant cells. Note prominent anisonucleosis and

long tapering cytoplasmic tails. Metastatic melanoma can closely

mimic primary breast carcinoma and is not an uncommon metastasis

to the breast. (Smear, Papanicolaou.)

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