Smear technique in the intra-operative brain tumor diagnosis: Its advantages and limitations

Neurological Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 121-124

  Slowiński, Jerzy ^a,b   Harabin Slowińska, Marzena ^a   Mrówka, Ryszard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b Dept Neurosurg Neurotraumatology ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Intra operative cytodiagnostics; Minimally invasive neurosurgery; Smear technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; SMEAR; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0344507284     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01616412.1999.11740907     Document Type: Article

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