Fine-needle aspiration diagnosis of metastatic anaplastic sacrococcygeal ependymoma to the lungs

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 228-230

  Saint Martin, Gaston A ^a   Aranha, Gerard V ^a   Castelli, Melanie J ^a   Gattuso, Paolo ^a,b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ependymoma; FNA; Lungs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACROCOCCYX TUMOR;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION;

EID: 10544231869     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199609)15:3<228::AID-DC10>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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