Hematologic malignancies of the female genital tract diagnosed on liquid-based pap test: Cytomorphologic features and review of differential diagnoses

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-67

  Hanley, Krisztina Z ^a   Tadros, Talaat S ^b   Briones, Alice J ^c   Birdsong, George G ^b   Mosunjac, Marina B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroma; Liquid based pap test; Primary uterine lymphoma; Solitary plasmacytoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CURETTAGE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; GRANULOCYTIC SARCOMA; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LEIOMYOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PELVIS; PLASMACYTOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MIDDLE AGED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 58149496771     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20994     Document Type: Review

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