Cytodiagnosis of metastatic amelanotic melanomas by fine-needle aspiration biopsy: Adjunctival value of immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy

Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 92-97

  Lai, Raymond ^a   Redburn, Jim ^b   Nguyen, Gia Khanh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Fine needle aspiration biopsy; Immunocytochemistry; Metastatic amelanotic melanoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; S100 PROTEINS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032565285     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980425)84:2<92::AID-CNCR4>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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