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Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 267145, 7 pages
doi:10.5402/2011/267145
Research Article

Transmucosal Fine Needle Aspiration of Oral and Pharyngeal Lesions

Fang-Ming Deng,1 Jack Hsu,2 and Kamal K. Khurana1

1Department of Pathology, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
2Department of Otolaryngology, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA

Received 21 March 2011; Accepted 24 April 2011

Academic Editor: J. A. Jimenez-Heffernan

Copyright © 2011 Fang-Ming Deng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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