Fine-needle aspiration biopsies of soft tissue tumors are often not fully diagnostic on conventional Papanicolaou or Giemsa stains. Often, more useful information can be gleaned from preparing cell ...

Oct. 29, 2003 — The staining quality of air-dried rehydrated cervical smears compares well with the quality of standard wet-fixed smears, according to findings published in the October issue of ...

ONE of the first steps in the laboratory work-up of an anemic patient is the examination of a peripheral blood smear. Unfortunately, although the white cells on such smears are usually well preserved, ...