Clinical significance of a cytologic diagnosis of atypical glandular cells, favor endometrial origin, in pap smears

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-54

  Saad, Reda S ^a,b   Takei, Hidehero ^a   Liu, Yulin L ^c   Silverman, Jan F ^c   Lipscomb, Jane T ^a   Ruiz, Bernardo ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Papanicolaou smear; Postmenopause

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

EID: 31544464401     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000325894     Document Type: Article

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