Pemphigus vulgaris of the vagina - Its cytomorphologic features on liquid-based cytology and pitfalls: Case report and cytological differential diagnosis

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 832-835

  Onuma, Kazuya ^a   Kanbour Shakir, Amal ^a   Modery, Judith ^a   Kanbour, Anisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid based; Pap smear; Pemphigus; Squamous cell carcinoma; Vagina

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; COLPOSCOPY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEMPHIGUS; VAGINAL DISEASES; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 70350335364     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21126     Document Type: Article

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