Should a nylon brush be used for Pap smears from pregnant women?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 463-464

  Holt, Jim ^a   Stiltner, Lynn ^a   Jamieson, Barbara ^b  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NYLON;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINAL NYLON BRUSH; VAGINAL SPATULA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA SMEAR;

EQUIPMENT SAFETY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 20644471636     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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