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. 2020 Oct;128(10):690-692.
doi: 10.1002/cncy.22299. Epub 2020 Jun 10.

A new guideline from the College of American Pathologists to improve the adequacy of thoracic small specimens for ancillary studies

Sinchita Roy-Chowdhuri  1
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A new guideline from the College of American Pathologists to improve the adequacy of thoracic small specimens for ancillary studies

Sinchita Roy-Chowdhuri. Cancer Cytopathol. 2020 Oct.
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Keywords: ancillary studies; guideline; lung cancer; molecular testing; small specimens; specimen collection; specimen handling; thoracic specimens.

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