KROK 1 2014 – Question 159 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Histological examination of biopsy samples taken from the thickened edges of a gastric ulcer revealed small clusters of small, markedly atypical hyperchromatic epithelial cells that were localized in the overdeveloped stroma. Specify the tumor:
- A. Medullary carcinoma
- B. Adenocarcinoma
- C. Scirrhous undifferentiated carcinoma
- D. Adenoma
- E. Undifferentiated sarcoma
Hint
Weigh the proportion of tumour cell clusters to fibrous stroma, together with the size and atypia of the cells, to decide the histological type of this gastric cancer.
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