Incidence of atypical glandular cells of uncertain significance in cervical cytology following introduction of the Bethesda System

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-55

  Eddy, Gary L ^a   Ural, Serdar H ^a   Strumpf, Kenneth B ^b,c   Wojtowycz, Martha A ^a   Piraino, Pamela S ^c   Mazur, Michael T ^b,c  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CROUSE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Pathology Associates of Syracuse   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CARCINOMA;

EID: 0031260383     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1997.4837     Document Type: Article

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