Medium power view of a chondrosarcoma
Medium power view of a chondrosarcoma

A close-up view of abnormal clusters of cells in a chondrosarcoma.
It would be useful to contrast this with images of normal cartilage, such as 1174.
In a normal cartilage, chondrocytes are usually visualized in pairs lying within lacunae.
The nuclei of the cells are visualized as small dark-staining dots.
Notice the nuclei are extremely large and unequal in size in this image.
(Description By:T. V. Rajan, M.D. )
(Image Contrib. by:T. V. Rajan, M.D. UCHC )