- 15.Female genital organs
- (14)Choriocarcinoma
Histology (HE stain, low power):Multinucleated eosinophilic tumor cells mimicking syncytiotrophoblasts, (yellow dotted line) and tumor cells with clear cytoplasm mimicking cytotrophoblasts (blue dotted line) proliferate in sheet-like pattern. The former type of tumor cells produces and secretes human chorionic gonadotropin (h-CG) as identified by IHC (see below).
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