The National Cancer Institute Thyroid fine needle aspiration state of the science conference: a summation

نویسندگان

  • Zubair W Baloch
  • Edmund S Cibas
  • Douglas P Clark
  • Lester J Layfield
  • Britt-Marie Ljung
  • Martha Bishop Pitman
  • Andrea Abati
چکیده

Address: 1Department of Pathology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 3Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 4Department of Pathology, University of Utah Hospital and Clinics, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 5Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA, 6Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and 7Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CytoJournal

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008