False-positive squamous cell carcinoma in cervical smears: Cytologic-histologic correlation in 19 cases

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-27

  Levine, Pascale Hummel ^a   Elgert, Paul A ^a   Mittal, Khush ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical intraepithelial lesion; False positive; Papanicolaou smear; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CELL DEATH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DYSPLASIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; NUCLEOLUS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CONIZATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0037222447     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10220     Document Type: Article

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