Theodor Schwann = Schwann Cells = Schwannoma

 

                             Theodor Schwann: Founder Of Modern Histology

                                     CELL IS THE BASIC UNIT OF LIFE 

    Theodor Schwann 

Cell Theory, 1839

Theodor Schwann = Schwann Cells 

Schwann Cells Form The Myelin Sheath

Vestibular Schwannoma

Tumour Of The Eight Cranial Nerve 

Eight Cranial Nerve = Hearing

              Histology Of Vestibular Schwannoma

Antoni’s Contribution (1920)

Nils Ragnar Eugène Antoni, a Swedish pathologist, described two characteristic tissue patterns within schwannomas

Swedish physician who became doctor of medicine and associate professor of neurology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Antoni A (cellular, palisading nuclei forming Verocay bodies)

Antoni B (looser, less cellular areas)

José Verocay (1910)  

Earlier, Verocay described the palisading arrangement of nuclei (now called Verocay bodies) in these tumors.

                                                 Schwannoma = Antoni and Verocay Bodies 

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