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Assessment of fine needle aspiration specimen adequacy for high-risk HPV detection and genotyping in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.
Acta cytologica - 1 Jan 2012
Solomides Charalambos C, Bibbo Marluce, Wang Zi-Xuan
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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the adequacy of archived and fresh fine needle aspiration (FNA) specimens from metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) for the molecular detection and genotyping of high-risk (HR) HPV. STUDY DESIGN: Thirty-seven specimens from 26 patients diagnosed by FNA with metastatic SCC were included as retrospective specimens [19 slides stained with...
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