Cold knife conization vs. LEEP: Are they the same procedure?

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-35

  Fanning, James ^a   Padratzik, Jay ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Cervix diseases; Cervix neoplasms; Cold knife conization; LEEP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD KNIFE CONIZATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOOP ELECTROSURGICAL EXCISION PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CONIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTERUS BIOPSY; UTERUS SURGERY;

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CONIZATION; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROSURGERY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036153667     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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