Implications regarding atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance among women residing in a US-Mexico border city

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1014-1016

  Greenberg, H ^a   Duarte Gardea, M ^b   Quezada, O R ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

ASCUS; Hispanic; Pap smear

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL SQUAMOUS CELL OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; COLPOSCOPY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CHILD; COLPOSCOPY; DNA PROBES, HPV; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 33745102283     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2006.00597.x     Document Type: Article

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