Thymic epithelial cells as a diagnostic pitfall in the fine-needle aspiration diagnosis of primary mediastinal lymphoma

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 460-465

  Yu, Gordon H ^a,c   Salhany, Kevin E ^b   Gokaslan, Sefik T ^a   Cajulis, Ricardo S ^a   De Frias, Denise V S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cytology; fine needle aspiration; mediastinum; non Hodgkin's lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CYTODIAGNOSIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; THYMOMA; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0031007048     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199705)16:5<460::AID-DC15>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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