Value of the innovated technique agarose cell block in improving the sensitivity of urine cytology in cases of bladder carcinoma

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 379-385

  Mansy, Soheir Saiid ^a   Abbas, Mahmoud A ^a   Yehia, Hoda A ^a   AbdelRazik, Samia M ^b   Ghanem, Lobna Y ^a   Amin, Tarek M ^c  

^a Theodor Bilharz Research Institute   (Egypt)

^b Cairo University   (Egypt)

^c Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Agarose cell block technique; Electron microscopy; Urine cytology

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; PARAFFIN;

BLADDER CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; URINE CYTOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CYTODIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEPHAROSE; TISSUE EMBEDDING; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINE;

EID: 33750870791     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01913120600854269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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