Cytologic features of benign solitary pulmonary nodules with radiologic correlation and diagnostic pitfalls

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-210

  Islam, Shahidul ^a,c   Delatour, Nicolas L D Roustan ^a   Salahdeen, Shafeeq R ^b   Mai, Kien T ^a   Senterman, Mary ^a   Mokhtar, Ghadeer A ^a  

^a Laboratory Medicine   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA EYE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy; Blastomycosis; Bronchogenic cyst; Fibrous tumor; Fine needle; Granuloma; Hamartoma; Lipid pneumonia; Lung; pleura; Pulmonary nodule; Radiology; Sclerosing he mangioma

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 7; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; ERYTHROCYTE BAND 3 PROTEIN; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG CYST; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLITARY FIBROUS TUMOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 64549108997     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000325126     Document Type: Article

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