Usefulness of agnor score in differentiating benign from malignant pulmonary aspiration cytology

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 393-398

  Chern, Jia Haur ^a,b,c   Lee, Yu Chin ^a,b   Yang, Mei Hai ^a,b   Chang, Shi Chuan ^a,b   Perng, Reury Perng ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Taipei Municipal Chung Hsiao Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Lung neoplasms; Nucleolus organizer region; Stains and staining

Indexed keywords

ARGYROPHILIA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER GRADING; CHROMOSOME NOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030978216     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332530     Document Type: Article

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