The significance of "low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, cannot exclude high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion" as a distinct squamous abnormality category in Papanicolaou tests

Cancer

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 277-281

  Elsheikh, Tarik M ^a   Kirkpatrick, Joseph L ^a   Wu, Howard H ^a  

^a BALL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical squamous cells; Cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; High grade intraepithelial lesion; Low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; DATA BASE; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU;

CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 33750096484     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22169     Document Type: Article

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