Clinical and histological significance of atypical glandular cell on Pap smear

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-49

  Behtash, Nadereh ^a   Nazari, Zeinab ^b   Fakhrejahani, Farhad ^a   Khafaf, Alireza ^a   Azar, Elham Ghayouri ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Atypical glandular cell; Pap smear; Pathological finding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL GLANDULAR CELL; CANCER GRADING; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLPOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CURETTAGE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; MATERNAL AGE; METAPLASIA; OVARY CANCER; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CERVIX UTERI; COLPOSCOPY; CONIZATION; DILATATION AND CURETTAGE; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 33846469426     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2006.00678.x     Document Type: Article

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