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Desmoplastic stroma is thickened stroma that is responsible for the hardness of the prostate.
Carcinomous glands have a single layer of cells with large nucleoli. Remember, normal prostate glands have a double-layered epithelium, the basal layer being very flattened, seemingly inactive cells. Here the cells of the gland are round and fat with dark nuclei, indicating activity.
