Fine needle aspiration cytology: experience with a cell block technique.
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technique . experience with a cell block Fine needle aspiration
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.39.1.114-d