title: Fine needle aspiration biopsy of orbital meningioma. Report of a case.
abstract: A case of orbital neoformation in a 28-year-old man is described. The cytohistologic diagnosis on fine needle aspiration biopsy specimens was meningioma; this was later confirmed by histologic study of surgical fragments. The cytohistologic features of the aspirated material (nuclear pseudoinclusions, psammoma bodies and cells arranged in whorls) allowed a rapid, reliable, ambulatory diagnosis to be formulated with an advantageous cost/benefit ratio.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pathologic Anatomy, Civil Hospital of Terni, Italy.
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Cristallini
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Bolis
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ottaviano
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008579:Meningioma / Q000473:pathology*; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*