Benign prostatic hyperplasia, histology
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The hyperplastic glands have papillary-like infoldings, with a myoepithelial cell layer (small nuclei near basement membrane). Malignant glands do not have this layer. Note that the stroma divides the glands one from another. Malignant glands are often "back to back", without this intervening stroma.