The clinical significance of a negative loop electrosurgical cone biopsy for high-grade dysplasia

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 250-254

  Livasy, Chad A ^a   Moore, Dominic T ^a   Van Le, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANCER RECURRENCE; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROSURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; COLPOSCOPY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; COLPOSCOPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTROSURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NORTH CAROLINA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4344705681     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000132803.88049.84     Document Type: Review

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