Cytomorphologic profile of lymphatic filariasis

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 948-952

  Arora, Vinod K ^a   Singh, Navjeevan ^a   Bhatia, Arati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Lymphatic filariasis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM INFECTION; MICROFILARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WORM EGG;

EID: 0029764107     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334006     Document Type: Article

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