An imprinted ring cell is a specific morphology of a cell when examined microscopically and is commonly found in malignant tumor cells.
When examined under the microscope, the cell morphology looks like a ring due to the presence of a large amount of mucus inside the cell that squeezes the nucleus to one side of the cell. This type of cell is often diagnosed as an impression cell carcinoma, which is usually found in gastric cancer, intestinal cancer, etc. There are also a small number of patients whose impression cells are found in the breast.
Chemotherapy for imprinted cell carcinoma is generally very ineffective because the inside of the imprinted cells are filled with mucus, which interferes with the fluid exchange of the cells. Cancer characterized by the presence of imprinted cells is generally poorly differentiated, highly malignant and insensitive to most chemotherapeutic drugs, so imprinted cell carcinoma has a high rate of metastasis and recurrence, a short survival period and a poor prognosis.
Precautions: one should go to the hospital for consultation in time and actively cooperate with the treatment when there are imprinted cells.