High grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (CIN 3) with extension into the endocervical clefts: Difficulty of cytologic differentiation from adenocarcinoma in situ

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 889-894

  Drijkoningen, Maria ^a   Meertens, Beatrijs ^a   Lauweryns, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Carcinoma in situ; Cervix dysplasia; Cervix neoplasms; Cervix uteri; Cytodiagnosis; Cytology; Neoplasms; Squamous cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 0029760740     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333998     Document Type: Article

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