Incidence of cervical carcinoma in a high-risk, non-screened area: Results of a restrospective analysis on the Dutch Caribbean Antilles from 1983-1998

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 150-154

  Bax, Arjan ^a,b,c,d   Voigt, R R ^a,b,c   Coronel, C C ^a,b,c   Putter, H ^a,b,c   de Bie Leuving Tjeenk, R M ^a,b,c   van Marwijk, H W J ^a,b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c St Elisabeth Hospital Willemstad   (Netherlands Antilles)

^d NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GYNECOLOGY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TIME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 4143055860     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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