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  • Title: Ultrastructural diagnosis of facial nerve schwannoma using fine needle aspiration.
    Author: Navas-Palacios JJ, de Agustin PP, Alvarez de los Heros F, Perez-Barrios A, Alvarez-Vicent JJ.
    Journal: Acta Cytol; 1983; 27(4):441-5. PubMed ID: 6576545.
    Abstract:
    In a 14-year-old boy presenting with left facial nerve paralysis, physical examination revealed a soft, round mass in the floor of the left external auditory canal. A fine needle aspiration biopsy was performed to obtain material for light and electron microscopy. Several small groups of uniform, spindle-shaped neoplastic cells were present on the slides; a malignant mesenchymal tumor was considered, but a definite diagnosis could not be established under light microscopy. The ultrastructural examination revealed spindle-shaped and stellate cells with multiple parallel cytoplasmic processes lined with a well-developed basal lamina; these features are highly characteristic of a benign schwannoma.
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