Accuracy of liquid-based pap tests: Comparison of concurrent liquid-based tests and cervical biopsies on 782 women with previously abnormal pap smears

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 132-138

  Guo, Ming ^a,b   Hu, Lulin ^a   Martin, Leanne ^a,c   Liu, Shawn ^a   Baliga, Mithra ^a   Hughson, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; Cervical smears; Liquid based cytology; Papanicolaou smear; ThinPrep

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLPOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MCNEMAR TEST; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 15244340481     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326120     Document Type: Article

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