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==Microscopic==
==Microscopic==
Features (memory device ''WTC''):
Features (memory device ''WC''):
*Whorled appearance - '''key feature'''.
*Whorled appearance - '''key feature'''.
*Thick-walled blood vessels, usually prominent.
*Calcification, psammomatous (target-like appearance; (tight) onion skin).
*Calcification.


Images:  
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Notes:
Notes:
*May involute into benign sclerotic tissue.<ref>URL: [http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/23/3/785.long http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/23/3/785.long]. Accessed on: 3 November 2010.</ref>
*May involute into benign sclerotic tissue.<ref>URL: [http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/23/3/785.long http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/23/3/785.long]. Accessed on: 3 November 2010.</ref>
*Thick-walled blood vessels = feature of [[schwannoma]].


===Morphologic subtypes===
===Morphologic subtypes===
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