Cervical cancer screening in japan

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1103-1106

  Sato, Shinji ^a,b   Makino, Hiromitsu ^a,b   Yajima, Akira ^a,b   Fukao, Akira ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervix neoplasms; Mass screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0030811151     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332795     Document Type: Article

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