Efficacy of the endo-pap sampler in detecting endometrial lesions

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 900-906

  van Hoeven, K H ^a,b,c   Zaman, S Saeed ^a,b   Deger, Randolph B ^a,b,d   Artymyshyn, Renee L ^a,b,e,f  

^a Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d CROZER CHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering   (United States)

^f ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial diseases; Endometrial hyperplasia; Endometrial neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 0029763598     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334000     Document Type: Article

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