KROK 1 2009 – Question 186 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Examination of a young woman revealed a tumour up to 3 cm in diameter in form of a knot localized along the acoustic nerve. The tumour is homogenous, soft and elastic, of pink-and-white colour. Microscopically the tumour contains clusters of cells with oval nuclei. Fibrous cell clusters form regular structures made up by parallel rows of regularly oriented cells arranged in form of a palisade. Zones between the rows of cells are acellular and homogenous (Verocai bodies). What tumour is it?
- A. Neurinoma
- B. Malignant neurinoma
- C. Ganglioneuroma
- D. Neuroblastoma
- E. Ganglioneuroblastoma
Hint
Weigh the cell of origin suggested by palisaded nuclei and Verocai bodies, and whether the description fits a slow, circumscribed process or an anaplastic, invasive one.
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