Profile of Pap smear cytology in the Western region of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1225-1229

  Jamal, Awatif A ^a   Al Maghrabi, Jaudah A ^a  

^a KING ABDUL AZIZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HERPES VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; WART VIRUS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0347503580     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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