Diagnostic issues with cytopathologic interpretation of lung neoplasms displaying high-grade basaloid or neuroendocrine morphology

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 159-167

  Maleki, Zahra ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

basaloid squamous cells carcinoma; fine needle aspiration; large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma; lung; small cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; CHROMOGRANIN; PEROXIDASE; PROTEIN P63; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BASALOID SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CELL DEATH; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LARGE CELL NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMA; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITOSIS; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, NEUROENDOCRINE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79951626568     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21351     Document Type: Article

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