Pap smear follow-up of possible role of mucopurulent exudate as a prognosticator of a negative pregnancy outcome

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 4-6

  Bedrossian, Ursula K ^a,b   Fairfax, Marilynn R ^a   Ayers, Melvern ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Biomedical Communications   (United States)

Author keywords

Mucopurulent exudate; Pap smear; Pregnancy; Sexually transmitted disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; GRAM STAINING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; COHORT STUDIES; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGNOSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0032977514     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0339(199907)21:1<4::AID-DC2>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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