Fine-needle aspiration cytology of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma in cervical lymph nodes: Comparison with metastatic squamous-cell carcinoma, and Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 18-22

  Kollur, Sharanamma M ^a,b   El Hag, Imad Abdien ^a  

^a PARAS Central Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

FNA; Lymph nodes; Lymphomas; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CELL; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EOSINOPHIL; GRANULOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPHOID CELL; MACRONUCLEUS; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REED STERNBERG CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037217696     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10218     Document Type: Article

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