Fine-needle aspiration cytology of metastatic clear-cell renal carcinoma presenting as a solitary mass in the head of the pancreas

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 194-197

  Gupta, Raj K ^a   Lallu, Shardu ^a   Delahunt, Brett ^a  

^a WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fine needle aspiration cytology; Metastatic renal cell carcinoma; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031874959     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199809)19:3<194::AID-DC8>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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