Bethesda classification of cervicovaginal smears: Reproducibility and viral correlates

Human Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 581-585

  Joste, Nancy E ^a,b   Rushing, Lynda ^a   Granados, Rosario ^a   Zitz, Julia C ^a   Genest, David R ^a   Crum, Christopher P ^a   Cibas, Edmund S ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cervical dysplasia; cervicovaginal smear; cervix; human papillomavirus; reproducibility; squamous intraepithelial lesion; statistics

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA; VIRUS TYPING; WART VIRUS;

EID: 0029887078     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0046-8177(96)90165-3     Document Type: Article

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