A 6-Year Experience with Pap Smears in an Urban Adolescent Practice: The Scope and Burden of Abnormalities

Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 217-222

  Soren, Karen ^a   Kharbanda, Elyse Olshen ^a   Chen, Shaofu ^a   Westhoff, Carolyn ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherence; Adolescent; Papanicolaou; Paps

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLPOSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROSURGERY; ETHNICITY; EXCISION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SQUAMOUS CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA; WART VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVALENCE; URBAN POPULATION; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651123023     PISSN: 10833188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpag.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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