Usefulness of argyrophilic nucleolar organizer regions score to differentiate suspicious malignancy in pulmonary cytology

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Volumn 111, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1591-1596

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

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taipei Municipal Chung Hsiao Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Argyrophil staining technique; Cytology; Lung neoplasm; Nucleolar organizer regions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CHROMOSOME NOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG CANCER; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

EID: 0030980276     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.111.6.1591     Document Type: Article

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