Evaluation of the papnetsystem for prescreening triage of cervicovaginal smears

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1058-1064

  Ashfaq, Raheela ^a   Saliger, Fran ^a   Solares, Beatrice ^a   Thomas, Shala ^a   Liu, George ^a   Liang, Yifan ^a   Saboorian, M Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical smears; Mass screening; PAPNET; Vaginal smears

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINA CARCINOMA; VAGINA SMEAR;

EID: 0030792327     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332788     Document Type: Article

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