Interobserver variability in subclassification of squamous intraepithelial lesions: Results of the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Cervicovaginal Cytology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 123, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1079-1084

  Woodhouse, Sherry L ^a   Stastny, Janet F ^b   Styer, Patricia E ^c   Kennedy, Mary ^c   Praestgaard, Amy H ^c   Davey, Diane D ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b Outpatient Cytopathology Center   (United States)

^c Molecular Pathology Division   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0032727221     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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