HBME-1 immunostaining in reactive mesothelial versus metastatic adenocarcinoma cells in serous fluid

• Main Authors: Alireza Rahmani (Author), Mohsen Zahedi Dehghani (Author), Noushin Moghaddam Afshar (Author), Hamidreza Heidarian (Author), Reza Tahririan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The cytological diagnoses of serous effusions are usually made by routine cytomorphology with certainty. However, overlapping cases sometimes exist between reactive mesothelial and adenocarcinoma cells. We tried to evaluate the diagnostic utility of HBME-1 in distinguishing between react...