Portable colposcopy in low-resource settings

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2004, Pages

  Walmer, David K ^a   Merisier, Delson ^b   Littman, Eva ^a   Rodriguez, Gustavo ^c   Venero, Nick ^a   Henderson, Marcus ^a   Katz, David ^a   Edwards, Rosemary ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Hopital Sainte Croix   (Haïti)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MERCY HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cervical dysplasia; Colposcopy; Developing countries

Indexed keywords

HALOGEN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN; CAMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLPOSCOPE; COLPOSCOPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FILTER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIGHT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA;

EID: 7244240707     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126334-200410013-00006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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