The role of low-level magnification in visual inspection with acetic acid for the early detection of cervical neoplasia

Cancer Detection and Prevention

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 345-351

  Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ^a   Shastri, Surendra S ^b   Basu, Parthasarathi ^c   Mahé, Cédric ^a   Mandal, Ranajit ^c   Amin, Geethanjali ^b   Roy, Chinmayi ^c   Muwonge, Richard ^a   Goswami, Smriti ^b   Das, Pradip ^c   Chinoy, Roshini ^b   Frappart, Lucien ^d   Patil, Sharmila ^b   Choudhury, Devjani ^c   Mukherjee, Titha ^c   Dinshaw, Ketayun ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^c CHITTARANJAN NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (India)

^d EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Developing countries; Early detection; Magnified visual inspection with acetic acid; Prevention; Screening; VIA; VIAM; Visual inspection with acetic acid

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; COLPOSCOPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ACETIC ACID; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CERVIX UTERI; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COLPOSCOPES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 20844444591     PISSN: 0361090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdp.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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