AgNOR Quantification in the Diagnosis of Follicular Pattern Thyroid Lesions

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 347-352

  Słowińska Klencka, Dorota ^a   Klencki, Mariusz ^a   Popowicz, Bozena ^b   Lewiński, Andrzej ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b Clinical Hospital No 3   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Computer assisted diagnosis; Nucleolus organizer region; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid neoplasms

Indexed keywords

SILVER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOMETRICS; NODULAR GOITER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SILVER STAINING; SMEAR; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FOLLICLE; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID GLAND;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; SILVER STAINING; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0347990571     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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