Diagnostic value of hair shafts and squamous cells in peritoneal washing cytology

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 357-360

  Miyake, Yasuyuki ^a   Hirokawa, Mitsuyoshi ^b   Kanahara, Takuo ^c   Fujiwara, Keiichi ^a   Koike, Hirofumi ^c   Manabe, Toshiaki ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c Kawasaki Medical School Hospital ^*

Author keywords

Hair; Neoplasms, squamous cell; Ovarian neoplasms; Peritoneal washings; Peritoneum; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID CYTOLOGY; CELL MIGRATION; CONTAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY TERATOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAMMOMA BODY; SMEAR; SQUAMOUS CELL;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 0034129181     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000328478     Document Type: Article

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