Fine-needle aspiration biopsy diagnosis of small round cell tumors of childhood: A comprehensive approach

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 81-91

  Akhtar, Mohammed ^a   Iqbal, M Anwar ^a   Mourad, Walid ^a   Ali, M Ashraf ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Ewing's sarcoma; Lymphoma; Rhabdomyosarcoma; Small round cell tumor; Wilms' tumor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CYTOGENETICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EWING SARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; SARCOMA; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0032839558     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199908)21:2<81::AID-DC2>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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