Resection of Bilateral Symmetrical Multiple Level Cervical Ganglioneuroma in a 43-Year-Old Man, a Probable Case of Neurofibromatosis Type-1: Report of a Case and Review of Literature

Figure 8

Histopathology of the tumor. (a, b) Histopathological sections of the tumor show bipopulation of the tumor cells, sheet of spindle shape bland looking cells mixed with scattered large spherical ganglion cells (). Neither necrosis nor mitosis is seen in the tumor (×100, ×400, hematoxylin and eosin). (c) Immunohistochemical stain for S-100 shows diffuse, strong immunopositivity in both neuroma and ganglion cell component () (×100). (d) Immunohistochemical stain for chromogranin shows immunostaining in ganglion cell component () only (×100).

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