Cytological diagnosis of cryptococcal peritonitis on peritoneal fluid [1]

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 670-671

  Al Abbadi, Mousa A ^a   Han, Liying ^a   Husain, Mujtaba ^a   Fairfax, Marilynn R ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; LETTER; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ASCITIC FLUID; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERITONITIS;

EID: 34948888816     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20703     Document Type: Letter

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