Rare epithelial sheets with 'cancer-like' nuclei presenting against a background of cytologically normal-appearing endometrial epithelium in endometrial brush samplings: Establishing a differential diagnosis

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 378-386

  Maksem, John A ^a   Lee, Steve S ^a   Roose, Ellen B ^a   Carlson, Joel A ^a   Dornbier, Dennis P ^a   Belsheim, Beverly L ^a  

^a Mercy Hospital Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma; Endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia; Endometrial microcarcinoma; Endometrium; Hyperplastic endometrial polyp

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU;

AGED; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE;

EID: 0032736553     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199912)21:6<378::AID-DC3>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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