Diagnostic utility of endocervical curettage in women undergoing colposcopy for equivocal or low-grade cytologic abnormalities

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 110, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 288-295

  Solomon, Diane ^b   Stoler, Mark ^a   Jeronimo, Jose ^b   Khan, Michelle ^b   Castle, Philip ^b   Schiffman, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLPOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX; UTERUS BIOPSY; UTERUS DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; BIOPSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CERVIX UTERI; COLPOSCOPY; DILATATION AND CURETTAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548386734     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000270154.69879.09     Document Type: Article

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