Thick smear

Dirty background

Normal epithelial cells in oral cavity

Large dark nucleus-dead appearance,

Double, refractile granule cytoplasm,

Regular arrangement

Individuality

Eccentric nuclei, kidney or bean shaped nuclei

Intracytoplasmic vacuoles

Intracytoplasmic carbon particle

Ill-defined cytoplasm

Hyperchromatic chromatin

Eosinophilic or orangophilic cytoplasm

Larger than basal cell, smaller than squamous, round cell,

Sheet arrangement, round oval nuclei, fine granular chromatin

Slightly pleomorphism  & hyperchromasia.

Keratinized carcinoma cells, often appear as single cells

Cells are bizarre and show a variety of appearance

Dense, homogeneous, irregular border of nuclei

Not recognizable nucleoli

Cytoplasm is brightly orangophilic

Cannibalism and keratinizing cytoplasm

Cancer pearls

Ghost cells

Small tight cluster

Cell in cell pattern

Molding of nuclei

Scant cytoplasm

Salt and pepper chromatin

Long strands of mucus

Medium sized to large cells

Abundant delicate or vacuolated cytoplasm, flat sheets

Rosettes, acinar structures, or cell cluster/balls

Round to oval eccentric nuclei with large solitary nucleoli

Small, cohesive, monolayered sheets

Papillary processes, cell balls and clusters

Variability in amount of peomorphism and nuclear atypia

Intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions

Originate terminal bronchi or alveoli