Elastofibroma Dorsi Has Distinct Cytomorphologic Features, Making Diagnostic Surgical Biopsy Unnecessary: Cytomorphologic Study with Clinical, Radiologic, and Electron Microscopic Correlations

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 327-333

  Domanski, Henryk A ^a   Carlén, Birgitta ^a   Sloth, Maja ^a   Rydholm, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aspiration cytology; Computed tomography; Core needle biopsy; Elastofibroma dorsi; Electron microscopy; Magnetic resonance image

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BIOPSY; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTOFIBROMA DORSI; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBROELASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPULA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SPINDLE CELL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

AGED; BIOPSY; COLLAGEN; ELASTIC TISSUE; ELASTIN; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0344737816     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10381     Document Type: Article

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