Are treatments for cervical precancerous lesions in less-developed countries safe enough to promote scaling-up of cervical screening programs? A systematic review

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chamot, Eric ^a   Kristensen, Sibylle ^a   Stringer, Jeffrey S A ^b   Mwanahamuntu, Mulindi H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CERVICAL STENOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOTHERAPY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LACERATION; LONG TERM CARE; LOOP ELECTROSURGICAL EXCISION PROCEDURE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; VAGINA DISCHARGE; ELECTROSURGERY; FEMALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRECANCER; REVIEW; SAFETY; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

CRYOTHERAPY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTROSURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; SAFETY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77950543941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-10-11     Document Type: Article

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