Aluminum silicate-containing psammoma bodies in a cervicovaginal smear (Pap): Cytological, ultrastructural, and radiographic microprobe studies

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 122-124

  Li, Shiyong ^a   Boudousquie, Alan C ^a   Baloch, Zubair W ^a   Minda, Justina M ^a   Gupta, Prabodh K ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum silicate; Cervicovaginal smear; Multinucleated giant cells; Psammoma bodies

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COLPOSCOPY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAMMOMA BODY; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; WART VIRUS;

ADULT; ALUMINUM SILICATES; FEMALE; GIANT CELLS; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; MENINGIOMA; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0032820332     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199908)21:2<122::AID-DC8>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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