Performance of Candida - Fungal-induced atypia and proficiency testing. Observations from the College of American Pathologists Proficiency Testing Program

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 133, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1272-1275

  Moriarty, Ann T ^a   Darragh, Teresa M ^b   Fatheree, Lisa A ^c   Souers, Rhona ^c   Wilbur, David C ^d  

^a AmeriPath Indiana ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Molecular Pathology Division   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; ATYPIA; CANDIDA; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTECHNOLOGIST; FUNGAL DETECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGIST; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA SMEAR;

CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 69149099938     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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