Aspiration cytology of malignant neoplasms associated with granulomas and granuloma-like features: Diagnostic dilemmas

Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 84-91

  Khurana, Kamal K ^a   Stanley, Michael W ^b   Powers, Celeste N ^a   Pitman, Martha B ^c  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Epithelioid histiocytic response; Epithelioid neoplasms; Granuloma; Malignant lymphoma; Malignant neoplasms; Rheumatoid nodule

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GRANULOMA; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL, DIFFUSE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032565289     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980425)84:2<84::AID-CNCR3>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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