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[José Verocay. Verocay neurinomas and bodies and other contributions to medicine]
1Departamento de Patología, Hospital ABC, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico DF, Mexico. cortiz@abchospital.com
Aims:
To describe the academic contributions to pathology and the biography of José Verocay (1876-1927), and to comment on the differential diagnosis of Verocay bodies.
Development:
José Juan Verocay was an Uruguayan-born pathologist that worked at the Institute of Pathology in Prague under the figures of Chiari, Kretz and Ghon. He described in 1910 the structures today known as 'Verocay bodies', in a paper on neurofibromas. During some time, schwannomas were known as 'neurinomas of Verocay'. This peculiar alienation of cells of Schwann known as Verocay bodies, is characteristic, but not exclusive of schwannomas, and may be found in other mesenchymal tumors, some carcinomas and in melanomas.
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