Metastatic melanoma of the thyroid mimicking a papillary carcinoma in fine-needle aspiration [1]

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 374-376

  Nguyen, Gia Khanh ^a   Miiji, Luciana Odashiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Lac Laboratorio de Anatomia Patologica e Citopatologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HMB 45 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN S 100; THYROGLOBULIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MELANOMA; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID NODULE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 19544368800     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20261     Document Type: Letter

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