Endocervical component: Is it a determinant of specimen adequacy?

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-55

  Selvaggi, Suzanne M ^a   Guidos, Barbara J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocervical component; Specimen adequacy; Squamous intraepithelial lesions; ThinPrep Pap Test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMEAR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

ADULT; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0036140056     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10019     Document Type: Article

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