A case of ganglioneuroma of parapharyngeal space is described and the literature on this field is briefly reviewed. The patient, a 7-year-old female, presented with a left parapharyngeal space mass causing medial displacement of the left lateral pharyngeal wall. The lesion sized 4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA case of CNS gliomyosarcoma, in a 71-year-old female with skeletal muscle differentiation is presented. The tumor was composed by two cell types: one showed features typical of glial cells, the other was constituted by elements having immunohistochemical positivity with desmin, sarcomeric actin, myoglobin and myogenin antisera. It is postulated an origin from a cell capable of dual differentiation.
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