Figure 2

Region of histological features of interest for intraductal papilloma as seen in conventional hematoxylin and eosin staining (a) and PhC \(\mu\)CT (b) with a pixel size of 4 \(\mu\)m. In H&E image are also shown: intraductal papilloma portion (IP) inside the dashed blue lines, ductal space (DS), blood vessels (BV), the fibroadipose tissue (FA), elastic collagen and fibers (F) inside the red dotted line, the normal breast glandular tissue (BGT), cauterization artifacts (CA) due to electrosurgical cut of the tissue, and (FC) denotes the fibrovascular cores (FC). The scalebar is 0.5 mm.