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Are eosinophilic structures really a diagnostic cytomorphologic criterion for tuberculosis?

✍ Scribed by Vinod K. Arora; Navjeevan Singh; Arati Bhatia

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 94 KB
Volume: 15
Category: Article
ISSN: 8755-1039
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0339(199611)15:4<360::aid-dc23>3.0.co;2-l

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✦ Synopsis

The authors have studied the three established cytomorphologic patterns, namely, (1) necrosis and epithelioid cell granulomas, (2) only epithelioid cell granulomas without necrosis, and (3) only necrosis without epithelioid cell granulomas used for the cytological diagnosis of tuberculosis, and concluded that eosinophilic structures