Direct visual inspection for cervical cancer screening: An analysis of factors influencing test performance

Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1699-1707

  Denny, Lynette ^a   Kuhn, Louise ^b,c   Pollack, Amy ^d   Wright Jr , Thomas C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c EngenderHealth ^*  (United States)

^d ENGENDERHEALTH   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; Direct visual inspection; Human papillomavirus; Papanicolaou smears; Squamous intraepithelial lesions

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLPOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; WART VIRUS;

ACETIC ACID; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; COLPOSCOPY; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0037086611     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10381     Document Type: Article

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