Fine needle aspiration biopsy of a small round cell tumor exhibiting both neural and myogenic differentiation. A case report.
1997
BACKGROUND: Divergent differentiation may not be detected in the limited material available in a fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB). CASE: A small round cell malignancy showed neural features ultrastructurally on FNAB, in keeping with primitive neuroectodermal tumor, but desmin and actin positivity on surgical biopsy, suggesting rhabdomyosarcoma. CONCLUSION: Accurate classification of small round cell tumors by FNAB is more likely to occur when both electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry are employed since these tumors may express divergent differentiation.
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