High diagnostic accuracy of cytologic smears of central nervous system tumors: A 15-year experience based on 4,172 patients

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 667-674

  Roessler, Karl ^a   Dietrich, Wolfgang ^a   Kitz, Klaus ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Central nervous system neoplasms; Intraoperative cytology; Neurosurgery; Smears

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPENDYMOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

EID: 0036074004     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326973     Document Type: Article

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