卵巢乳头状浆液性囊腺癌可包含小的砂粒体，如图所见的略带紫色的圆片状的物质，由肿瘤的营养不良性钙化形成。
Ovarian papillary serous cystadenocarcinomas may contain small concretions called psammomma bodies, seen here as purplish rounded and laminated objects. They are essentially just a form of dystrophic calcification in neoplasms