Fine needle aspiration cytology of primary pulmonary meningioma associated with minute meningotheliallike nodules: Report of a case with histologic, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural studies

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 899-903

  Gomez Aracil, Virginia ^a   Mayayo, Emilio ^a   Alvira, Rosa ^a   Arraiza, Alfonso ^a   Ramón y Cajal, Santiago ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Lung neoplasms; Meningioma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MENINGIOMA; PRIMARY PULMONARY MENINGIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0036736674     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000327067     Document Type: Article

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