Immunocytochemical staining of smears and corresponding cell blocks from serous effusions: A follow-up and comparative investigation

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-36

  Jensen, Marianne Lidang ^a,b   Johansen, Preben ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ber EP4; EMA; Immunocytochemistry; Immunohistochemistry; Serous effusions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFUSION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD15; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MESOTHELIOMA; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0029976970     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199607)15:1<33::AID-DC7>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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