Fine-needle aspiration of epithelioid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (epithelioid malignant schwannoma)

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 200-204

  Dodd, Leslie G ^a,b   Scully, Sean ^b   Layfield, Lester J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fine needle aspiration; Nerve sheath tumor; Sarcoma; Schwannoma; Soft tissue tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL ADHESION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPITHELIOID CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; NEURILEMMOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030868360     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199709)17:3<200::AID-DC6>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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