Atypical lipoma as a potential pitfall in the cytodiagnosis of subcutaneous tumors

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 897-902

  Woyke, Stanislaw ^a,b   Kapila, Kusum ^a   Goswami, Kuldip Chandra ^a,c  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT CANCER CONTROL CENTER   (Kuwait)

^c AL AMIRI HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Lipoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIPOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE TUMOR;

EID: 0030919620     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332725     Document Type: Article

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