Reparative changes and the false-positive/false-negative papanicolaou test: A study from the college of American pathologists interlaboratory comparison program in cervicovaginal cytology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 134-140

  Colgan, T J ^a   Woodhouse, S L ^a   Styer, P E ^a   Kennedy, M ^a   Davey, D D ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE;

CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CERVIX UTERI; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0035135999     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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