Diagnostic value, feasibility, and validity of preparing cell blocks from fluid-based gynecologic cytology specimens

Cancer

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 204-209

  Keyhani Rofagha, Sedigheh ^a,b   Vesey Shecket, Michelle ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b S305 Rhodes Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cell block; Cytology; Diagnostic value; Gynecology

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BIOPSY; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0037173948     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10716     Document Type: Article

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