Management of cryotherapy-ineligible women in a "screen-and-treat" cervical cancer prevention program targeting HIV-infected women in Zambia: Lessons from the field

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 402-407

  Pfaendler, Krista S ^a,b,c   Mwanahamuntu, Mulindi H ^c,d,e   Sahasrabuddhe, Vikrant V ^f   Mudenda, Victor ^d,e   Stringer, Jeffrey S A ^b,c   Parham, Groesbeck P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH IN ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^d UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cervix; HIV; Loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP); Zambia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRYOTHERAPY; ELECTROSURGERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOOP ELECTROSURGICAL EXCISION PROCEDURE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NURSE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ZAMBIA;

BIOPSY; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; ELECTROSURGERY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 50149114279     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2008.04.031     Document Type: Article

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