Occurrence of intercellular spaces (windows) in metastatic adenocarcinoma in serous fluids: A cytomorphologic, histochemical, and ultrastructural study

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 115-119

  Yu, Gordon H ^a   Sack, Martha J ^a   Baloch, Zubair W ^a   DeFrias, Denise V S ^a,b   Gupta, Prabodh K ^a  

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

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Intercellular windows; Serous effusions

Indexed keywords

ALCIAN BLUE; CARMINIC ACID; HYALURONIDASE; PERIODIC ACID;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; EFFUSION; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0033027315     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199903)20:3<115::AID-DC1>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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