Exfoliative cytology of metastatic chordoma appearing in the sputum

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 513-518

  Kawahara, Ei ^a,b   Kimura, Akiko ^a,b   Akasofu, Miwa ^a,b   Kawakami, Yuh ^a,b   Kobayashi, Akihiko ^a,b   Nakanishi, Isao ^a,b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUI KEN SAISEIKAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chordoma; Lung neoplasms; Sputum

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 0030945908     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332548     Document Type: Article

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