Hyperchromatic crowded groups in cervical cytology - Differing appearances and interpretations in conventional and ThinPrep preparations: A study from the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Cervicovaginal Cytology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 332-336

  Renshaw, Andrew A ^a   Mody, Dina R ^b   Wang, Edward ^c   Haja, Jennifer ^c   Colgan, Terence J ^d  

^a BAPTIST HOSPITAL OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c North Carolina   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER GRADING; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; COLORIMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH GRADE SQUAMOUS INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 33644982149     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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