Cytopathologic differential diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma, adenocarcinoma and reactive mesothelial cells: A logistic regression analysis

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-10

  Cakir, Ebru ^a   Demirag, Funda ^a   Aydin, Mehtap ^a   Unsal, Ebru ^a  

^a Ataturk Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery Education and Research Hospital Ankara   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Cytodiagnosis; Mesothelial proliferation; Mesothelioma

Indexed keywords

ACINAR CELL; ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; MESOTHELIUM CELL; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MESOTHELIOMA; NEOPLASMS, MESOTHELIAL; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT;

EID: 58149496777     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20938     Document Type: Article

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