Utility of millipore filter and cell block in thyroid needle aspirates: Which method is superior?

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-38

  Nassar, Aziza ^a,b   Cohen, Cynthia ^a   Siddiqui, Momin T ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cell block; Millipore filter; Thyroid aspirates

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CELL BLOCK; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FILTER; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MILLIPORE FILTER; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID NODULE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROPORE FILTERS; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROID GLAND; TISSUE EMBEDDING;

EID: 33846255483     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20571     Document Type: Article

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