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Signet ring cell nodule

Monika Roychowdhury, M.D.

Topic Completed: 1 July 2012

Revised: 26 February 2019

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Monika Roychowdhury, M.D.
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Table of Contents
Case reports | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) images | Positive stains | Negative stains | Differential diagnosis
Cite this page: Roychowdhury M. Signet ring cell nodule. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/prostatesignetringnodule.html. Accessed October 15th, 2019.
Case reports
Microscopic (histologic) description
  • Stromal nodule with short spindly cells with bland nuclear features but also large, clear cytoplasmic vacuoles in many cells resembling signet ring cell carcinoma cells but noninfiltrative (Am J Surg Pathol 2002;26:1066)
  • Associated with degenerated lymphocytes (Am J Surg Pathol 1986;10:795)
Microscopic (histologic) images

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Signet ring cell
change in benign
prostatic hyperplasia

Positive stains
  • Vimentin, desmin (weak)
Negative stains
  • Mucin
Differential diagnosis
  • Signet ring cell carcinoma: infiltrative tumor cells with signet ring cell pattern (at least 25%) due to intracellular accumulation of mucin compressing the nucleus into a crescent shape; mucin+
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