Does every little cell count?: Don't 'ASCUS'

Cancer

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 45-47

  Stoler, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0033602653     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990425)87:2<45::AID-CNCR1>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Editorial

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