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The exhibit displays lymph nodes with metastatic carcinoma

Metastatic carcinoma shows malignant epithelial cell in glandular and tubular pattern. It consist of malignant epithelium displaying pleomorphic vesicular nuclei in eosinophilic cytoplasm. Immunohistochemistry is important ancillary test to defined the primary organ.

Metastatic adenocarcinoma