Nuclear grooves in normal and abnormal cervical smears

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 421-425

  Payandeh, Fariba ^b   Koss, Leopold G ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cervical smears; Cervix neoplasms; Nuclear grooves

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 0037688078     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326544     Document Type: Article

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