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Figure 4 | Head & Neck Oncology

Figure 4

From: A patient with ulcerated calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe in the pinna: case report

Figure 4

H&E stained section taken with a medium power objective. This shows maturation in pilomatricoma. The basaloid cells shown in the bottom right of the picture gradually become enlarged and more eosinophilic, the nuclei become pyknotic and eventually form the ghost cells characteristic of this tumour. There is foreign body reaction top left which is often seen in association with pilomatricoma

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