Grading of soft tissue sarcomas on fine-needle aspiration cytology smear

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 109-112

  Mallik, Mrinmay Kumar ^a,b   Dey, Pranab ^a   Gupta, Subhash Kumari ^a   Vasishta, Rakesh Kumar ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b MUBARAK AL KABEER HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Cytology; Grade; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYXOSARCOMA; NECROSIS; NEUROFIBROMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

EID: 74849111132     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21157     Document Type: Article

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