Clinical impact of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance: A cytohistologic comparison

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-30

  Lousuebsakul, Vichuda ^a   Knutsen, Synnove M F ^a   Gram, Inger T ^a,b   Akin, Marie Rose M ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

ASCUS; Cervical smears; Cervix neoplasms; Neoplasms, squamous cell; Papanicolaou smear

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA;

EID: 0033971602     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326220     Document Type: Article

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