Diagnosis of isolated tuberculous orchitis by fine-needle aspiration cytology

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 698-700

  Garbyal, Rajendra Singh ^a,b   Gupta, Prajwala ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a   Anshu, ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

FNAC; Orchitis; Testis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SCROTUM DISORDER; SMEAR; TESTICULAR ENLARGEMENT; TESTIS TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

ADULT; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CYTODIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; ORCHITIS; TESTIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MALE GENITAL;

EID: 33748772015     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20538     Document Type: Article

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