Cytological findings of an extragonadal yolk sac tumor presenting at an unusual site

Yolk sac tumor (YST) is a rare neoplasm that affects children and adolescents. Fine needle aspiration biopsy is an extremely useful procedure for the diagnosis of YST. Main objective is to describe the characteristic cytological features of fine needle aspirates of YST. We report a case of YST in a...

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Autores principales: Kataria, Sant Prakash, Misra, Kiran, Singh, Gajender, Kumar, Sanjay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25948952
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.155242
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author Kataria, Sant Prakash
Misra, Kiran
Singh, Gajender
Kumar, Sanjay
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description Yolk sac tumor (YST) is a rare neoplasm that affects children and adolescents. Fine needle aspiration biopsy is an extremely useful procedure for the diagnosis of YST. Main objective is to describe the characteristic cytological features of fine needle aspirates of YST. We report a case of YST in a 4-year-old male child occurring at paravertebral region showing cytomorphological details.
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spelling pubmed-44086862015-05-06 Cytological findings of an extragonadal yolk sac tumor presenting at an unusual site Kataria, Sant Prakash Misra, Kiran Singh, Gajender Kumar, Sanjay J Cytol Case Report Yolk sac tumor (YST) is a rare neoplasm that affects children and adolescents. Fine needle aspiration biopsy is an extremely useful procedure for the diagnosis of YST. Main objective is to describe the characteristic cytological features of fine needle aspirates of YST. We report a case of YST in a 4-year-old male child occurring at paravertebral region showing cytomorphological details. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4408686/ /pubmed/25948952 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.155242 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Cytology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cytological findings of an extragonadal yolk sac tumor presenting at an unusual site
title Cytological findings of an extragonadal yolk sac tumor presenting at an unusual site
title_full Cytological findings of an extragonadal yolk sac tumor presenting at an unusual site
title_fullStr Cytological findings of an extragonadal yolk sac tumor presenting at an unusual site
title_full_unstemmed Cytological findings of an extragonadal yolk sac tumor presenting at an unusual site
title_short Cytological findings of an extragonadal yolk sac tumor presenting at an unusual site
title_sort cytological findings of an extragonadal yolk sac tumor presenting at an unusual site
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25948952
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.155242
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