A study of treatment failures following large loop excision of the transformation zone for the treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 718-722

  Flannelly, Grainne ^a   Langhan, Heather ^a   Jandial, Lata ^b   Mann, Evelyn ^b   Campbell, Marion ^b   Kitchener, Henry ^a  

^a Wellbeing Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS GRAMPIAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLPOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFTERCARE; AGED; BIOPSY; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; COLPOSCOPY; ELECTROSURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0030986724     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1997.tb11983.x     Document Type: Article

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