Utility of repeat fine needle aspiration in acute suppurative lesions: Follow-up of 263 cases

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 337-340

  Kumar, Neeta ^a,c   Jain, Shyama ^a   Murthy, N S ^b  

^a MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Inst of Cytol and Prev Oncology   (India)

^c Apartment 81 ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Suppuration; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CARCINOMA; CHILD; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EPIDERMOID CYST; EXUDATE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIALOADENITIS; SOFT TISSUE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 2442649180     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326382     Document Type: Article

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