Anal-rectal cytology: The other pap test

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 168-171

  Bean, Sarah M ^a   Chhieng, David C ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOSCOPY; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; COLPOSCOPY; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CYTOLOGY; EXCISION; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATIENT REFERRAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM MUCOSA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; WART VIRUS; WATCHFUL WAITING;

HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS;

EID: 77951954120     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/LMHYS464MYWZOXFW     Document Type: Article

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