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Use of Exfoliative Specimens and Fine-Needle Aspiration Smears for Mutation Testing in Lung Adenocarcinoma.
Acta cytologica - 1 Jan 2017
Jain Deepali, Ramachandrappa Vijayakumar S, Singh Varsha, Malik Prabhat S, Madan Karan, Faruq Mohammed, Guleria Randeep
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OBJECTIVE: Cytology specimens are considered to be a promising alternative for detecting driver mutations in lung cancer patients. We aimed to explore the suitability and utility of various cytology samples of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients for mutation testing. In addition to mutation detection, the importance of preanalytic factors was discussed. DESIGN: A total of 116 cytology samples including 32...
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