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. 1962 Sep;16(3):390–399. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1962.45

Comparative Evaluation of the Acridine Orange Fluorescence and Papanicolaou Methods for Cytodiagnosis of Cancer

R Marks, A M Goodwin
PMCID: PMC2070951  PMID: 21772460

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