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Maral Mokhtari1, Perikala Vijayananda Kumar, Soorena Rezazadeh

  • 1Department of Pathology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. maral_mokhtari@yahoo.com

Acta Cytologica
|October 19, 2012
PubMed
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Fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology can suggest Myositis ossificans (MO), but definitive diagnosis requires clinical and radiological correlation. FNA may be misdiagnosed as malignant bone tumors without this context.

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