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Schwannomas are common tumors in the posterior fossa and spinal canal, where they produce compressive symptoms and signs. Nerve sheath cell tumors are difficult to crush yielding smears with cohesive tissue fragments without single cells.
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Lacruz, C.R., Sáenz de Santamaría, J., Bardales, R.H. (2014). Tumors of the Cranial and Spinal Nerves. In: Central Nervous System Intraoperative Cytopathology. Essentials in Cytopathology, vol 13. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8429-5_14
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