Fine needle aspiration biopsy of hepatocellular carcinoma resembling neuroendocrine tumor: A case report

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 583-586

  Piatti, Bruno ^a,b   Caspani, Bruno ^a,b   Giudici, Carolina ^a,b   Ferrario, Daniela ^a,b  

^a SANT ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Department of Pathology ^*

Author keywords

aspiration biopsy; hepatocellular carcinoma; immunohistochemistry; liver neoplasms; neuroendocrine tumors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031000699     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332561     Document Type: Article

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