Cytological features of signet-ring cell carcinoma of the lung: Comparison with the goblet-cell-type adenocarcinoma of the lung

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 159-163

  Tsuta, Koji ^a   Shibuki, Yasuo ^a   Maezawa, Naoki ^a   Tochigi, Naobumi ^b   Maeshima, Akiko Miyagi ^a   Sasajima, Yuko ^a   Asamura, Hisao ^a   Matsuno, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Imprint smear; Lung adenocarcinoma; Mucinous bronchiolo alveolar carcinoma; Signet ring cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

MUCIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; GOBLET CELL TYPE ADENOCARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; NUCLEOLUS; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; SMEAR; TUMOR CELL; COLLOID CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GOBLET CELL; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; GOBLET CELLS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MUCINS;

EID: 64249092905     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20897     Document Type: Article

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