Incidental giardiasis diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration of a phantom cecal "mass" [2]

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 287-288

  Pu, Robert T ^a   Rosenthal, Dorothy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPENDIX; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CECUM TUMOR; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LETTER; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 25444493566     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20351     Document Type: Letter

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