The role of laboratory processing in determining diagnostic conclusiveness of breast fine needle aspirations: Conventional smearing versus a monolayer preparation

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 931-934

  Wauters, Carla A P ^a   Kooistra, B ^a   Strobbe, L J A ^a  

^a CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CENTRIFUGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FIBROADENOMA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMEAR; STANDARD; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 70349653812     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2009.066589     Document Type: Article

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