Abdominal fat pad aspiration biopsy for tissue confirmation of systemic amyloidosis: Specificity, positive predictive value, and diagnostic pitfalls

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 181-185

  Guy, Cynthia D ^a,b   Jones, Claudia K ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal fat pad fine needle aspiration biopsy; Amyloid; Congo red stain

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; CONGO RED;

ABDOMEN; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BIREFRINGENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035120590     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0339(200103)24:3<181::AID-DC1037>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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