The Bethesda System 2001 recommendation for reporting of benign appearing endometrial cells in Pap tests of women age 40 years and older leads to unwarranted surveillance when followed without clinical qualifiers

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-93

  Aslan, Deniz L ^a   Crapanzano, John P ^a   Harshan, Manju ^a   Erroll, Maria ^a   Vakil, Behzad ^a   Pirog, Edyta C ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bethesda system; Cervical cytology; Endometrial cells; Pap; Papanicoloau

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATHOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 34748814430     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.05.036     Document Type: Article

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