Diagnostic significance of Atypia in instrumented versus voided urine specimens

Cancer

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 270-274

  Kapur, Umesh ^a   Venkataraman, Girish ^a   Wojcik, Eva M ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical urothelial cells; Follow up histology; Urine cytology; Urothelial carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATYPICAL UROTHELIAL CELL; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CANCER CELL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DYSPLASIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URINE CYTOLOGY; UROTHELIUM; BLADDER TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; URINE;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINE;

EID: 51649101383     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23656     Document Type: Article

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