Chondroid chordoma of the skull base diagnosed by squash-smear technique.
Squash-smears of tissue from a chondroid chordoma arising from the skull base of a 26-year-old white man showed numerous single and clustered physaliferous cells with multiple intracytoplasmic vacuoles, and atypical cartilaginous cells in an amorphous myxoid background.
D000328:Adult; D002356:Cartilage / Q000473:pathology*; D002817:Chordoma / Q000473:pathology*; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014617:Vacuoles / Q000473:pathology