Intraparotid Schwannoma Masquerading as Primary Spindle Cell Tumour of Parotid: A Diagnostic Pitfall

A middle-aged female presented with a painless, slowly growing mass in the left parotid region; fine needle aspiration cytology from the mass showed uniform spindle cells in a fibrillary background with some cells showing palisading. A cytodiagnosis of schwannoma was given, which was further confirm...

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Autores principales: Bhattacharya, Jenna B., Singh, Meeta, Jain, Shyam L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5655661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29118479
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JOC.JOC_147_15
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description A middle-aged female presented with a painless, slowly growing mass in the left parotid region; fine needle aspiration cytology from the mass showed uniform spindle cells in a fibrillary background with some cells showing palisading. A cytodiagnosis of schwannoma was given, which was further confirmed on biopsy.
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spelling pubmed-56556612017-11-08 Intraparotid Schwannoma Masquerading as Primary Spindle Cell Tumour of Parotid: A Diagnostic Pitfall Bhattacharya, Jenna B. Singh, Meeta Jain, Shyam L. J Cytol Case Report A middle-aged female presented with a painless, slowly growing mass in the left parotid region; fine needle aspiration cytology from the mass showed uniform spindle cells in a fibrillary background with some cells showing palisading. A cytodiagnosis of schwannoma was given, which was further confirmed on biopsy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5655661/ /pubmed/29118479 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JOC.JOC_147_15 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Cytology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Intraparotid Schwannoma Masquerading as Primary Spindle Cell Tumour of Parotid: A Diagnostic Pitfall
title Intraparotid Schwannoma Masquerading as Primary Spindle Cell Tumour of Parotid: A Diagnostic Pitfall
title_full Intraparotid Schwannoma Masquerading as Primary Spindle Cell Tumour of Parotid: A Diagnostic Pitfall
title_fullStr Intraparotid Schwannoma Masquerading as Primary Spindle Cell Tumour of Parotid: A Diagnostic Pitfall
title_full_unstemmed Intraparotid Schwannoma Masquerading as Primary Spindle Cell Tumour of Parotid: A Diagnostic Pitfall
title_short Intraparotid Schwannoma Masquerading as Primary Spindle Cell Tumour of Parotid: A Diagnostic Pitfall
title_sort intraparotid schwannoma masquerading as primary spindle cell tumour of parotid: a diagnostic pitfall
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5655661/
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