ASCCP practice guidelines: Endocervical curettage

Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 251-256

  Thomas Cox, J ^a   Guintoli Sr , Robert ^a   Lonky, Neal ^a   Newkirk, Gary ^a   Suggs, Charles ^a   Tedeschi, Candice ^a   Tosh, Robert ^a   Waxman, Alan ^a   Wilkinson, Edward ^a  

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