On the utility and limitations of fine-needle aspiration of palpable lesions located in the hand

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 284-291

  García Solano, José ^a   García Rojo, Blas ^a   Sánchez Sánchez, Carlos ^a   Montalbán Romero, Socorro ^a   Martínez Parra, Diego ^b   Pérez Guillermo, Miguel ^a  

^a Allergy Section   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cutaneous lesions; Ganglion cyst; Melanoma; Needle biopsy; Nodular tenosynovitis; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HAND INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FIBROMA; HAND; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; LIPOMA; MELANOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; PALPATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033667805     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0339(200010)23:4<284::AID-DC14>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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