Multinucleated giant cells in fine-needle aspiration of thyroid nodules: Their diagnostic significance

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 307-312

  Shabb, Nina S ^a   Tawil, Ayman ^a   Gergeos, Fadi ^a   Saleh, Monzer ^a   Azar, Sami ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Multinucleated giant cells; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; GOITER; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; ONCOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBACUTE THYROIDITIS; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

EID: 0032694407     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199911)21:5<307::AID-DC2>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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