Fine needle aspiration cytology of reactions in leprosy

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 771-776

  Malik, Abha ^a   Bhatia, Arati ^a   Singh, Navjeevan ^a   Bhattacharya, Sambit N ^a   Arora, Vinod K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Leprosy; Mycobacterium leprae

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGIC SKIN REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; LEPROSY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY;

EID: 0032832581     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000331290     Document Type: Article

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