Liquid-based Papanicolaou smears without a transformation zone component: Should clinicians worry?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1053-1059

  Baer, Atar ^a,b   Kiviat, Nancy B ^a,b   Kulasingam, Shalini ^a,b   Mao, Constance ^a,b   Kuypers, Jane ^a,b   Koutsky, Laura A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COLPOSCOPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DNA DETERMINATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; WART VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLPOSCOPY; DNA, VIRAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL DISEASES; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0036277623     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(02)01998-1     Document Type: Article

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