AgNOR counts in cervical smears under normal and other cytopathologic conditions

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 337-340

  Misra, Jata S ^a,b,c   Das, Vinita ^a,c   Srivastava, Anand N ^a,c   Singh, Uma ^a,c   Singh, Madhulika ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c Department of Obstetrics ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cervical diseases; Cervical smears; Nucleolus organizer region; Squamous intraepithelial lesion

Indexed keywords

SILVER NITRATE; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME NOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STAINING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; SILVER STAINING; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 29144475771     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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