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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 4.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosurg Spine. 2017 Jan 27;26(4):501–506. doi: 10.3171/2016.10.SPINE16948

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining of the tumor reveals nests of cells (the classic Zellballen pattern) consisting of small ovoid nuclei and eosinophilic cytoplasm separated by thin, fibrovascular septae (H&E × 200 - Figure 1a (left)). Higher power reveals the bland, stippled chromatin pattern and scattered nucleoli (H&E × 400 - Figure 1b (right)).