Quality Indices in a Cervicovaginal Cytology Service: Before and after Laboratory Accreditation

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 303-307

  Tan, Kong Bing ^a   Chang, Satina A E ^a   Soh, Vanessa C H ^a   Thamboo, Thomas Paulraj ^a   Nilsson, Barbro ^a   Chan, Norman H L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; SINGAPORE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; UTERINE CERVICAL DISEASES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 1542374040     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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