Cytologic findings in pap smears with Actinomyces-like organisms

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 257-261

  Demirezen, Şayeste ^a   Kaya, Dilek ^a   Beksaç, M Sinan ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Actinomyces; IUDs; Papanicolaou smear

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LACTOBACILLUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METAPLASIA; METRITIS; NEUTROPHIL; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA MUCOSA;

ACTINOMYCES; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 18744376289     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000326146     Document Type: Article

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