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Case Reports
. 2014 Jan;18(1):143-5.
doi: 10.4103/0973-029X.131945.

Histopathological variants of oral squamous cell carcinoma-institutional case reports

Jigna Pathak  1 , Niharika Swain  1 , Shilpa Patel  1 , Ls Poonja  1
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Case Reports

Histopathological variants of oral squamous cell carcinoma-institutional case reports

Jigna Pathak et al. J Oral Maxillofac Pathol. 2014 Jan.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Conventional oral squamous cell carcinoma-malignant epithelial islands showing keratin pearl formation. (H&E stain, ×100)
Figure 2
Figure 2
Verrucous carcinoma-broad bulbous pushing rete ridges with parakeratotic plugging (H&E stain, ×100)
Figure 3
Figure 3
Adenoid squamous cell carcinoma -pseudoglandular pattern with acantholytic tumor cells. (H&E stain, ×200)
Figure 4
Figure 4
Spindle cell carcinoma-malignant epithelial cells showing spindling/sarcomatoid appearance (H&E stain, ×100)
Figure 5
Figure 5
Adenosquamous carcinoma-biphasic tumor showing true glandular differentiation (arrowhead) along with squamous differentiation (arrow) (H&E stain, ×100). Inset depicts alcian bluepositive mucin secretion (×400)
Figure 6
Figure 6
Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma biphasic tumor showing basaloid malignant islands with peripheral palisading and comedonecrosis (arrow) (H&E stain, ×100). Inset depicts squamous differentiation with keratin pearl formation (arrowhead) (H&E stain, ×100)
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