Advantages and difficulties of brush cytology in the identification of early oral cancer

Archive of Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 11-12

  Divani, Smaroula ^a,b   Exarhou, Maria ^a   Theodorou, Leonidas Nectarios ^a   Georgantzis, Dimitrios ^a   Skoulakis, Haralambos ^a  

^a General Hospital of Volos   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Carcinoma, squamous cell; Early diagnosis; Mouth mucosa; Mouth neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH MUCOSA; ORAL BIOPSY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STAINING;

EID: 69549085206     PISSN: 03547310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/AOO0902011D     Document Type: Article

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