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  1. Department of Pathology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

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Abdul-Karim, F.W., Michael, C.W., Koscick, R.L., Cheng, L. (2002). Cytopathology. In: Cheng, L., Bostwick, D.G. (eds) Essentials of Anatomic Pathology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-162-6_6

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