Difficulties in diagnosing small round cell tumours of childhood from fine needle aspiration cytology samples

Cytopathology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 67-79

  Pohar Marinšek, Živa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Childhood tumours; Cytodiagnosis; Cytopathology; Diagnosis; Fine needle aspiration cytology; FNAB; Small round cell tumours

Indexed keywords

TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CROSS REACTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EWING SARCOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOMA; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SMALL CELL SARCOMA;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, EMBRYONAL; SARCOMA, EWING'S; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 41049108242     PISSN: 09565507     EISSN: 13652303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2008.00555.x     Document Type: Review

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