Role of Intraoperative Pathology Consultation by Imprint and Scrape Cytology in Soft Tissue Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions

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Schwannoma. (a) Imprint smear showing clusters and palisades of spindle cells (MGG stain, X100). (b) Scrape smear showing cluster of spindle cells having elongated wavy nuclei (H&E, X400). (c) Spindle-shaped tumor cells with bland nuclear chromatin seen on paraffin-embedded sections. Nuclear palisading leading to Verocay body formation noted (H&E, X200).

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