Comparative analysis of electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry in the cytologic diagnosis of malignant small round cell tumors

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 443-449

  Brahmi, Urmil ^a   Srinivasan, Radhika ^a   Komal, Harbhajan Singh ^a   Joshi, Kusum ^a   Gupta, Subhash Kumari ^a   Rajwanshi, Arvind ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Electron microscopy; Immunocyto chemistry; Malignant small round cell tumors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SMALL CELL SARCOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

UNCLASSIFIED ORGANISMS;

EID: 0038026046     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326548     Document Type: Article

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