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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref name=pmid17893219/>
Features:<ref name=pmid17893219>{{cite journal |author=Wippold FJ, Lubner M, Perrin RJ, Lämmle M, Perry A |title=Neuropathology for the neuroradiologist: Antoni A and Antoni B tissue patterns |journal=AJNR Am J Neuroradiol |volume=28 |issue=9 |pages=1633–8 |year=2007 |month=October |pmid=17893219 |doi=10.3174/ajnr.A0682 |url=http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/reprint/28/9/1633}}</ref>
*Antoni tissue (type A and type B).
*Antoni A:
*Verocay bodies - paucinuclear area surrounded by nuclei.
**Cellular.
**'Fibrillary, polar, elongated'.
*Antoni B:
**Pauci-cellular.
**Loose microcystic tissue.
*Verocay bodies - paucinuclear area surrounded by palisaded nuclei.
*In the GI tract: classically have a ''peripheral lymphoid cuff''.<ref name=pmid15728600>{{cite journal |author=Levy AD, Quiles AM, Miettinen M, Sobin LH |title=Gastrointestinal schwannomas: CT features with clinicopathologic correlation |journal=AJR Am J Roentgenol |volume=184 |issue=3 |pages=797–802 |year=2005 |month=March |pmid=15728600 |doi= |url=http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/184/3/797}}</ref>


Notes:
Images:
*Tumour does ''not'' smear well.<ref>MUN. 24 November 2010.</ref>
 
====Antoni A====
*Cellular.
*'Fibrillary, polar, elongated'.
 
Comment: May look somewhat like scattered matchsticks.
====Antoni B====
*Loose microcystic tissue.
*Adjacent to Antoni A.
 
Micrographs:
*[http://www.pathguy.com/~lulo/lulo0003.htm Antoni A (pathguy.com)].
*[http://www.pathguy.com/~lulo/lulo0003.htm Antoni A (pathguy.com)].
*[http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/content/full/28/9/1633/F8 Antoni A & Antoni B side-by-side (ajnr.org)].
*[http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/content/full/28/9/1633/F8 Antoni A & Antoni B side-by-side (ajnr.org)].
Notes:
*Several subtypes exist.


==Neurofibroma==
==Neurofibroma==
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