Grading of Prostate Cancer
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Variants of Gleason Pattern 4 (part 2)

 

Fused glands

Chains of glands forming a maze-like pattern with scalloped borders. Multiple glands are merged with each other without intervening stroma.


nGG4fus1

Fused glands with scalloped borders (red arrows). Strips of stroma between the chains of glands (yellow arrow). 

 

nGG4fus2 

Fused glands with scalloped borders (red arrows). Strips of stroma between the chains of glands (yellow arrow).