Factors That Influence the Rate of Epithelial Maturation in the Cervix in Healthy Young Women

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-110

  Hwang, Loris Y ^a   Ma, Yifei ^a   Benningfield, Susanna Miller ^a   Clayton, Lisa ^a   Hanson, Evelyn N ^a   Jay, Julie ^a   Jonte, Janet ^a   Godwin de Medina, Cheryl ^a   Moscicki, Anna Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent women; Cervical epithelium; Cervical maturation; Cervix; Colpophotography; Ectopy; Human papillomavirus; Squamous metaplasia; Transformation zone

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COLPOSCOPY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMATURITY; INTERVIEW; MATURATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; ORGANOGENESIS; PILL; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; VIRUS EXAMINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CERVIX UTERI; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PHOTOGRAPHY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249142002     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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