Fine-needle aspiration cytology of sarcoma: Retrospective review of diagnostic utility and specificity

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-32

  Costa, Michael J ^a,b   Campman, Steven C ^a   Davis, Robin L ^a   Howell, Lydia Pleotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone tumors; Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Soft tissue tumors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029889933     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199607)15:1<23::AID-DC6>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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