Frozen section diagnosis in a jugulo-tympanic paraganglioma.
The light microscopy and immunohistochemical findings of a jugulo-tympanic paraganglioma occurring in a 29-year-old man are reported. Diagnostic difficulties from frozen sections are stressed and selected literature is briefly commented upon.
Elizalde
J M
JM
Department of Pathology, Hospital Civil de Bilbao, Faculty of Medicine, Basque Country University, Spain.
Eizaguirre
B
B
Florencio
M R
MR
López
J I
JI
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology*; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000473:pathology*; D005629:Frozen Sections; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000737:chemistry / Q000473:pathology*; D016708:Synaptophysin / Q000032:analysis
D016708:Synaptophysin